tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84186826638107738862024-03-08T03:48:53.733-07:00For Heaven's Sake!My intention is to enlighten Christians about the pitfalls involved with the New Age Religion, the New Spirituality concept, and "Oneness's" wrongnesses. Beware the sound of silence. Evil comes like a thief in the night.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-68376869732689018662012-05-28T08:33:00.001-06:002012-05-28T08:33:12.262-06:00NO GAS MONDAY!<div><p>NO-GAS MONDAY! This is the beginning of week seven...only 45 weeks to go.</p>
<p>My pledge is to NOT buy any petroleum products on Monday for an entire year. If everyone would agree to ban buying gas on Monday for a year, we could force corporate America to take notice.</p>
<p>Won't you join me? Share/like/or REPOST this message on all your favorite social sites. </p>
<p>STAND UP AND BE NOTICED!</p>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0Spearfish, Spearfish44.490818 -103.85937tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-42802383057430048162012-04-18T12:59:00.001-06:002012-04-18T12:59:02.124-06:00Embed this video!Embed this video:<br/>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVA1glJ8I4&feature=youtube_gdata_playerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-74778861801101612662012-03-02T15:30:00.000-07:002012-03-02T15:30:28.996-07:00Are You Ready?<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://assets.tumblr.com/images/input_bg.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All quoted content is taken from: <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/135d10d601ef412a" style="color: #007bff;">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/135d10d601ef412a</a></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul McGuire has a three DVD set <a _mce_href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109430047493&s=9185&e=001ElAh4tfr9mDxdlMPS4v41AAtaqNWlO3N9LC96upP1yfQdIKK7py9pga7kBvmyFCFD-Thy2WTbv9Hv3Qq3qG9-1rrUcYhElYzrIs5vITRURw8EXRV1mbINbN-XuSK2Td6f3ElFCITys0u25u-g14hMBdfKpt9bVNxZnLd6EaXXxR5cLCVi51f8oE8Otd2SeVmohJklsvrMEtHLUR6EFh-NYublF43HOSDEuYr-wHGtU0leLsUF6RgId7NwQXYHkJqN_XSM4nEH9NnyNZENd2Ffg==" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109430047493&s=9185&e=001ElAh4tfr9mDxdlMPS4v41AAtaqNWlO3N9LC96upP1yfQdIKK7py9pga7kBvmyFCFD-Thy2WTbv9Hv3Qq3qG9-1rrUcYhElYzrIs5vITRURw8EXRV1mbINbN-XuSK2Td6f3ElFCITys0u25u-g14hMBdfKpt9bVNxZnLd6EaXXxR5cLCVi51f8oE8Otd2SeVmohJklsvrMEtHLUR6EFh-NYublF43HOSDEuYr-wHGtU0leLsUF6RgId7NwQXYHkJqN_XSM4nEH9NnyNZENd2Ffg==" style="color: #007bff;">"Are You Ready?"</a>. Much of the material below comes directly from that DVD set. I have asked myself this very same question many times in the last year or so...Lord, will we be ready? In answer to this question, I keep getting the same information...prepare yourself and others through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Word of God found in the Bible. We are not supposed to panic or store away goods for self preservation. Quite the opposite. We are told to give away more and more of what we have to help those who are not as well off and, by doing this, preserve a spot in heaven for ourselves. The concept is that, if we show "The Light of Christ" through our actions, that Beam of Light will pierce others and they will be drawn to Christ also. We are stewards on this planet and our job is to bring as many people into the Kingdom as is humanly possible.</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a _mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI21QIItxGuM%26feature%3Dshare&h=iAQHAHdjSAQHWTBS1gYwT4GIOq_RewIt89dGgE4SY0ma9xQ" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI21QIItxGuM%26feature%3Dshare&h=iAQHAHdjSAQHWTBS1gYwT4GIOq_RewIt89dGgE4SY0ma9xQ" style="color: #007bff;" title="Rick Warren Exposed">Mike Hoggard</a> is one of my favorite "bring me back to the Bible" advocates. His videos are crammed full of Bible scripture. He backs everything he proclaims with scriptural references, which makes it quite difficult to argue against his theology. I have yet to hear him talk about storing up goods, building fortresses, or weaponizing our homes in preparation for the Tribulation. That said, I do believe there is a vast array of much needed information contained in these videos. We all need to be aware of what is coming, how it will come about, and why we need to be mentally prepared for the coming holocaust.</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first quoted section gives a bit of information on how this all got started both in America and the world...</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="color: #5f6b74; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">"The Illuminati, founded in 1776, used the Freemasons to spread their power globally. The Illuminati were behind the French Revolution which produced anarchy and revolution. The Illuminati unleashed the spirit of antichrist, where the people held orgies in churches and paraded a topless woman on a horse, who they called the Goddess of Reason. This was a forerunner of the Communist Revolution. Karl Marx was a Satanist and the Illuminati manuscript provided the principles for the Communist Manifesto. The Italian Communist leader, Antonio Gramsci, had close ties to the Masonic leader, Albert Pike, in America, who predicted three major world wars. The third world war was to happen in the Middle East."</strong></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="color: #5f6b74; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</strong></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This next section is about the collapse of the world's economy and what to expect as a result of global economic collapse...</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span size="3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>"Once again, the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, has made a speech in which she openly warned that we are heading for a repeat of the "1930s". </strong></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><em><strong>"It is not about saving any one country or region. It is about saving the world from a downward economic spiral.</strong></em></span><em> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><strong>I believe that we have to watch out for something along the lines of an economic martial law. The European system is in collapse. The financial system in the United States is just as tenuous, if not more, and I believe they will not admit there will be a financial crash but rather they will use a geo-political issue to get the people in a state of fear and hysteria whereby they'll then call a bank holiday or devaluation of the currency, or a hyperinflation of the currency, and blame it on somebody else."</strong></span></em></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><strong>Prior to and during the Tribulation Period billions of people are going to die through tsunami's, earthquakes, food shortages, war, biological plagues, asteroid impact and mass genocide. The English philosopher, Reverend Thomas Malthus, published his theories of population in the, "Essay on the Principle of Population," in 1798. Malthus basically said, "That all of mankind's problems are due to excessive population growth." </strong></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><strong> Ironically, this idea is the direct opposite of God's principle of, "Be fruitful and multiply." Today, Rockefeller and those who call themselves the "scientific elite," have a plan to reduce the earth's population by 7 billion to 500,000. In the Georgia, Guide stones, a kind of New Age Ten Commandments, that goal is etched in rock.</strong></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><strong>Earth changes are produced through asteroid impact and earthquakes that cause an environmental holocaust. The elite hide in underground cities. The Transhuman and Posthuman species, is the result of interspecies breeding of man, animal and Nephilim mating with human women. This Cyborg army moves east to Israel and Armageddon.</strong></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>In the Book of Revelation we read about how the False Prophet causes men and women to worship the image of the beast. In addition, there are numerous references to strange phenomenon, which could be referring to the Antichrist and Lucifer using "The Singularity," in order to create a soulless race of Posthuman's who will serve Satan."</strong></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, a few words about the immediate future, which will result in the world coming to its knees, begging for salvation from any source. (Satan gladly answers this cry for help!)...</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">"There is a coming event that will change everything on planet earth which millions of people are being prepared for. This event will either be the announcement of Extraterrestrial or other dimensional life. This event could be as the Nazi scientist Werner von Braun, suggested, a massive delusion produced by technology. Also, it could be an event that announces the existence of the Nephilim.</strong></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As I wrote about the other day, the World Bank has also been using apocalyptic language about the global financial situation. In a shocking new report, the World Bank revised GDP growth estimates for 2012 downward very sharply, it warned that Europe could be facing financial collapse at any time, and it instructed the rest of the world to "prepare for the worst."</strong></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"><span size="3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>An environment for a "perfect storm" is developing, and most Americans have absolutely no idea what is about to happen."</strong></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have long surmised that the next logical step in Satan's plan, to overthrow Christianity and faith in God, is to introduce aliens into our lives. Aliens who bring with them cures for disease (of course Satan can cure disease...he created them!), cures for aging, new technology (Nephilim technology), "one world" economy, world peace, and more!</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The clouds are on the horizon. Tesla technology has resulted in man fooling around with Nature by causing weather patterns to change and by causing earth vibrations to bring about earthquakes (perhaps even polar shift?). The "Elite" want to kill off as many people as they can naturally first. At the same time, world economy will be torn apart by means of wars, rumor of wars, and natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, disease, famine) resulting in a the apparent necessity for a "One World" government. No where in the Bible does it declare that we are supposed to lay up supplies, build up our immune system, prepare ourselves with weaponry to ward off usurpers, or otherwise separate ourselves from others.</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Satan's plan is so devious that few will blame him before religion is banned altogether or a new, "One World" religion is imposed on everyone. He is attacking on so many fronts that it will seem as though there are many separate causes, which are all bringing about the necessity for drastic changes. In order for Satan to succeed, he must recreate Christianity. Rick Warren is doing just this. He is attempting to combine all religions into one occult religion where we can all learn to contact our "Inner Being" through meditation and release our full potential to wealth and happiness (here, take a bite of this apple and you will be like God).</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My question to you is: Are You Ready?</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you prepared mentally to watch your family fall apart, possibly tortured before your eyes to gain allegance, and for a world full of hardships and suffering the like of which man has never before seen??? I guarantee you that the only place a person can find the answers is the Holy Word of God found in the Bible. Only through faith will you be able to face certain hardship and possible death. It is only by knowing your soul is immortal that you will be able to withstand the onslaught that Satan has prepared for his final surge to destroy the human gene pool once and for all. He nearly succeeded in the days of Noah by polluting humans with the Nephilim. "As in the days of Noah" says the Bible, it shall be again!</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yours in Christ...</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David K. Irwin</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-43927257249628518192011-07-31T09:41:00.003-06:002011-08-01T16:40:31.678-06:00Volcanoes, venting, and more...Proverbs 29:25 <br />
25 The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. #Bible <a href="http://j.mp/fmPIx1">http://j.mp/fmPIx1</a><br />
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<div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There seems to be a large amount of inactive, old volcanoes that are venting on a line from South America to Alaska. This would indicate that magma is heating up along the fault line causing water to evaporate and vent through these ancient volcanoes. I want to warn my friends on the coast lines of Alaska, America, Mexico, and South America to have emergency preparedness items stowed in a safe, accessible place. There won't be time to prepare once it happens and those who are prepared are more likely to survive a catastrophe. For those who do not survive...I'll say goodbye now. I hope you don't find yourselves in a hotter place yet...</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I truly believe that the Bible's warnings about Volcanoes erupting before the end times is near at hand. I believe that the entire "Ring of Fire" is awakening from a long dormant sleep and we will see volcanoes in places and proportions that have never been seen before in recorded history (other than the Bible that is). I wish everyone the best of luck in times to come. Being as close to Yellowstone as we are, I have little doubt that when America (the New Babylon) is split into three pieces by its super volcano, we will be among the first to leave this life. I am prepared...as is my family.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many people find it hard to believe what is predicted in the Bible. These poor folks won't find their faith until the predicted events start unfolding. I only hope that each of you finds his faith before it is too late. Once you are dead, there is no second chance. We are given the freedom to choose between faith and faithlessness....good vs. evil...life vs. death of the soul...heaven vs. hell...both deliver eternity...only one delivers salvation and happiness.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-67950041021865535962011-04-11T21:21:00.001-06:002011-04-11T21:53:40.562-06:00The Lord is my Shepard.<div><p>What an absolutely gorgeous day the Lord provided today! Not only was the weather nearly perfect, the Lord saw fit to bless everything we undertook. We realized early (6AM) that we weren't going to make it to the gym today so that was no real disappointment. There were just too many other things going down.</p>
<p>First, I fired up the tractor mower and used the bagger attachment to suck up the leaves and whatnot left from last Fall. Our two grandsons showed up about the time I finished so I took them both for a ride up the gravel road and back...twice! </p>
<p>Second, the lady showed up to buy our hot tub for $700 and she didn't quibble about the price one bit. She looked it over, made sure it ran good, and wrote out the check. The Lord's blessing on that deal was that they did the advertising in the paper. All we had to do was send them a picture of our tub and it was sold!</p>
<p>Finally, we took one grandson and drove to Rapid City and did some shopping with the proceeds from the sale. I got two, much needed, pairs of walking gym shoes (yesterday my foot was bleeding from walking for an hour at the gym), we got a booster seat for our grandson for in the car, and we also bought him some much needed pairs of short pants (as Bobby Hill calls them).</p>
<p>The Lord provided everything we needed to provide for ourselves and our extended family. We are truly blessed to have Jesus on our side watching over our affairs and our wellbeing. He even had a police car, with sirens blaring, go by us so we had to pull over and wait. A little while later, a deer ran across the road right in front of us! Had we been a few seconds sooner, we would have hit it for sure. </p>
<p>The more I understand our Lord and how He works, the more I find myself becoming aware of His helping hands in everything we do. I find myself thanking Him time and time again every single day. Amen!</p>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-30967393973114865472010-07-24T09:51:00.000-06:002010-07-24T09:51:54.202-06:00Gulf Disaster...a path to heaven or hell?<i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Below is an article I wrote in response to an article on the BP Oil Disaster. They can both be found on the web site Helium...an author driven emporium of wanna-be writers.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When this disaster first happened, I had a long prayer session with our Lord Jesus concerning the possible outcome. I came away from that session of prayer with the definite belief that the oil was not the most devastating result (even though turning the Gulf into a new La Brea Tar Pit is no minor happening). Jesus made it abundantly clear that the real problem was going to be the gases being released into the atmosphere and Oceans. Now, in order to add some validity to this, I immediately told my wife and a few others so that later, when people expressed their disbelief, I had witnesses to this revelation. Now, before going a step further in my article here, I suggest you read the Linked article above "<a href="http://www.helium.com/items/1894713-doomsday-bp-oil-spill-disaster">How BP oil disaster may have triggered a World-Killing event</a>."</span></i><br />
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When I read that article, my mind's worst conceivable scenario was literally "blown out of the water" (no pun intended). I had visions of air pollutants mixing with moisture in the atmosphere, condensing, and falling as acid rain laced with oil and sulfur ruining people's health and killing crops. Never in 55 million years did I expect anything as devastating as what is predicted in Aaron Davis' article.<br />
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I should also mention that the good Lord Jesus has also made it clear that this is not simply the "beginning of the end"....it is the end. I do not claim to be a psychic or prophet. Nor do I claim to have any insider information or personal liaison with the Lord God Almighty other than the same path that is freely given to all humanity...prayer. I can say that, since I became a born again Christian in 1996, I have prayed over many things and, without exception, every single prayer has been answered. Often, it is not the answer I would prefer. I recall asking for patience as I was easily drawn into anger and impetuosity. It seemed as though my situation became a thousand times worse in the next few months. When I asked my mentor, Gary, what was happening, he laughed and said, "Don't you see that Jesus is teaching you the lesson of patience by putting you in situation after situation that requires you to be PATIENT?" Well, once I realized it was a lesson and not a miraculous cure, I quickly began learning to deal with life more patiently.<br />
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I blog on a semi-regular basis at For Heaven's Sake but have not been able to fire up any new ideas since this Gulf turbulence began. I have found myself engrossed in efforts to resolve the multitude of differences that are keeping many of my friends and family from turning to Christ for Salvation. Thus the reason for telling my wife and others about my prayer sessions and results. I maintain the hope that I may influence them if I can verify enough important matters being answered through prayer. They prefer the term "coincidental timing" or the ever popular "the mind can do miraculous wonders if one knows how to use it properly" (i.e. mind over matter theory).<br />
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I had smoked for...well for ever. I quit once for eight years and craved cigarettes the entire time. Finally, I gave it up to Jesus. On January 13, 2001, the Lord Jesus hushed all the sounds around me and said, quite clearly, "You will never have to smoke again son." I awakened the next morning to the news of the El Salvador earthquake that devastated the country killing thousands. It was late in the morning before it dawned on me that I had not smoked a cigarette. Suddenly, I realized that I did not have any urge to smoke whatsoever. It has been nine years plus now and I have never...not even once...had an urge to smoke. It is as though I never smoked at all during my life. To me, this is a miracle generously bestowed upon me by Christ Jesus because I had enough faith in Him to give up my habit to His timing while truly believing in my heart that He would help me. I finally quit trying to "run the show" and do it on my own. I relinquished my human ego of being capable of solving my own problems to my Higher Power and Christ answered that act of faith with a miracle. However, when I tell my disbelieving friends and family about this event, they put it off as "mind over matter" or simply say, "I guess it was your time to quit...eh?"<br />
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I am telling you this because, since this Gulf Disaster happening, with each passing day, I become more weepy and sorrowful knowing how many of my lifetime friends and loving family will be missed for an eternity. As I await the Rapture, I pray that somehow I can reach them and break through their defenses and denial while realizing that sometimes God says, "NO." On the one hand, I am greatly saddened by these events while, on the other hand, I rejoice in the knowledge that I shall soon meet the wonderful man who allowed me to quit smoking. God bless each and every one of you and, it is my opinion, you had best get all your ducks in a row because the path to Heaven is very, very narrow.<br />
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Much love...<br />
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David K. Irwin</span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-1628715583493914532010-02-28T10:59:00.003-07:002010-02-28T11:40:21.721-07:00To take or not to take...The Mark (of the Beast?)<span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Greetings friends & family...<br /><br />With the recent earthquake in Chile so soon after the one in Haiti, do you find yourself wondering where and when the next one will occur? The USA has offered to help, but how many more world disasters can we afford? I don't believe we can afford any as America is broke...financially bankrupt...operating in the red...belly-up, flat-ass, penniless! If you take time to think about it, we are facing a Spring filled with home-grown disasters of its own such as flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, and drought. Add to that our seemingly impossible-to-solve health care problems and you begin to see just the frosting on the cake. Our <a href="http://usdebtclock.org/">national debt</a> is higher than ever in history, we have the longest running war in history (and most expensive), and we have a pretty healthy number of poor and uneducated citizens that deserve more than they are getting. When is enough, enough? When do we say, "Hey, we're broke. Fix it on your own." I know it sounds heartless, but our economy will falter and collapse soon if we continue to spend without any ability to recover or recoup our losses.<br /><br />Now, add to all that the Biblical aspect of the End Times Prophecy and you begin to have a pretty dismal picture of the future...if you are not a Christian that is. True believers in the resurrection of Christ by His death on the Cross at Calvary have the luxury of knowing that they are already saved. But, that salvation is not without restrictions and responsibilities, as some New Age/New Spirituality believers would have you thinking. What are you, as a Christian, going to do when you are told to take the Mark or die? VeriChips are being implanted into humans worldwide already and, just as the Bible predicted, they are being placed in the right hand or forehead (best areas for scanning). What are you going to do when they say you have to get a chip implanted in order to drive your car and get a license or in order to buy anything at all? It's already in the works. 2010 marks the date that mandatory state licensing find a new method of licensing that will be safer and less easy to duplicate or forge. VeriChip is leading the field in security systems for humans and is being used in offices, government buildings, and other places worldwide where persons are implanted with the chip to gain access to secure sites. Granted, this is not "The Mark of the Beast" that the bible warns us about...but, it is a step closer. Is it a step you are willing to take? Is it a step a Christian should accept? Are there grounds for refusal on terms of one's beliefs? When it happens...and it will...I believe the answer to all those questions will be an adamant "NO! </span></span><div><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Here's a statement taken from "The Last Chronicles of Earth" by Frank J. DiMora (a free book in pdf format easily found by Google), "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">USA Today reported on the final details of these new drivers licenses. “U.S. residents born after Dec. 1, 1964, will need to have new Homeland Security approved drivers licenses by Dec. 1, 2014, if they want to use their ID to board an airplane or enter a federal building”</span> (should read 2008)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">. As of April 2009, I can tell you the government has delayed this program to give states time to get ready for the new licenses. The REAL ID ACT will now start in 2010. Let me tell you something. If the U.S. is attacked again as we were on September 11, 2001, the government will make everyone get a new ID</span>(license)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> right away. Either way governments around the world are making it harder to hide.</span>"<br />I'll be posting more on this subject in the very near future so stay tuned to this page or my Facebook Advanced Link.<br /><br />Yours in Christ, friendship, and LOVE...<br /><br />Hipster</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-69758750465188377482009-10-22T09:33:00.008-06:002009-10-22T11:03:19.808-06:00The "New Holocaust" (New Spirituality?)<p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Good friends & fellow believers in Christ Jesus...</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">In my unceasing search for the truth, I have come upon a website that has presentations (both video and audio) from many of today's comtemporary authors, theologians, and church leaders. Warren Smith, Ray Yungen, and Roger Oakland are among these. As I was perusing the titles, I came across a speech by Roger Oakland called "<a href="http://www.radiofreechurch.com/speaker_display/6">05 The Emerging Church: Revival or Return to Darkness?" (bottom of page). </a>This well documented speech explains the concerns I have with the Emergent Church, which is infiltrating many of our churches across America and the world, much better than I could ever explain myself to you, the reader. I hope you take the time to listen to it...it is about 50 minutes in length...I think.<br /><br />Warren Smith's "<a href="http://www.radiofreechurch.com/speaker_display/18">Signs of the Times; A Course In Miracles</a>" is another excellent talk that relates many of my concerns about Rick Warren's continual use of terms that are misleading, some his "more than questionable" associations with New Age authors and evangelists, and his past association with Robert Schuller (will Schuller ever admit he is really a "new-ager"?). This speech is bit lengthy at 70 minutes...but, again, well worth the time. Once you are on this website, be sure to check out the tons of other excellent videos pertaining to nearly every topic of concern to your walk with Christ in today's world. I promise, if you do, you will soon be looking to read a few of these authors and theologians.<br /><br />I fully understand a reluctance to read apologetics...they can be burdensome and tend to be repetitive, but they are an excellent source of information about current topics concerning Christianity. It is crucial to Satan's plan that he "re-invent" Christianity in a way that will be attractive enough to people so as to entice them into changing their concept of Salvation without them even knowing that they have also changed their beliefs. Today's authors are on one side of this topic or the other...good...or evil. Both claim to be on the side of Christ. One is the True Christ of the Bible...the other is the antichrist of the Bible.<br /><br />My life-long friend, Gary Hammer, who is now in prison for two years for embezzlement (from his mother...something he would never have done normally, yet did under the influence of the New Age) recently read Warren Smith's book "The Light That Was Dark", which explains how he (Warren Smith) got into, then out of, the New Age, told me, "David, you have no idea how widespread this really is! Andrea (his ex-wife...who is still in the New Age and dying of cancer...hmmm...New Age christ & Reiki didn't help?) and I encountered "Readings", "Spiritual Healing (Reiki)", "Channeled Voices", and "Meditative Prayer (occult)" everywhere we went for four years. From New Mexico to South Dakota and California to Illinois...it was everywhere!" He told me that the selling points are:</span></em></p><ul><li><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Guilt-free lifestyle (there is no sin, no devil, no evil...therefore, no need for salvation).</span></em></li><li><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"> Increased well being (better health through meditation, Reiki healing touch, and therapeutic massage).</span></em></li><li><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"> Increased wealth (through meditation you will meet your "Inner Self" or "Higher Being" who will guide you to wealth and happiness.)</span></em></li><li><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Less stress (also through meditation).</span></em></li><li><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">A secure feeling of belonging and knowing you are "one with God" (concept of "Oneness" or idea we are all gods...although they do not come right out and say this). This a general state of "overall well-being" and happiness.</span></em></li></ul><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Who wouldn't want to feel better, get rich, not worry about sin or what you do unto others to succeed in life (very big in business world today), have less stress doing it all, and know that, no matter what happens, you are always saved because you are a part of God (after all, God can't sin!). This movement is sweeping our country. I truly believe it is the great falling away the bible warns us about. The reinvention of Christianity by means of the oldest trick in the book..."Hey...you there...you can be a god." Instead of taking a bite of an apple, all you have to do this time is meditate and allow Satan's spirit guides to talk to you and guide you out of Eden and straight to hell. The Emerging Church is following this path with symbolical faith that says we need to go back to the "Old Ways" to find a "New Faith". What's wrong with the old faith? I told my friend in prison that my local pastor does not believe this New Spirituality Movement (Emergent, New Age, Contemplative...take your choice) is as serious as I make it out to be...he laughed and said, "You have NO IDEA how seriously massive it is!" Warren Smith, Ray Yungen, Roger Oakland and others reiterate the same warning!<br /><br />I read one very interesting article by Jack Hook (website: <a href="http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net/">Babylon the Great Is Falling </a>- read "What's New") relating how this "Falling Away" from Christianity much resembles the methodology used by Hitler to reinvent Christianity during his time to win over German Christians in the 30's. Although Hitler did not use meditative prayer as his main tool (he did dabble in the occult though), his intentions were basically the same...to change people's perception of what Christianity is expected to do for people. He basically united state and church (Roman Catholic Church) so that they were inseparable before the war ever started. That way, once the fight actually began, the church (and thereby the majority of people) was obligated to back him up. In order to do this, Hitler had to make people believe that Jesus was on Germany's side and wanted the German people (who were, at the time, much depressed and repressed due to world-wide depression of the 1930's) to "regain a sense of nobility" as a nation. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">He actually sold the idea that Christ had a vested interest in the recovery, nobility, and notoriety of the German state and that it was the duty of the Roman Catholic Church to back him up for the betterment of German society as a whole (other churches would have to follow suit of course). What an ingenious plan! As it turned out...truly demonic. Much the same as is Satan's plan today...to reinvent Christianity in the minds of the masses. The Holocaust will be a bee sting on the butt of humanity compared to what is happening today. New Age Spirituality believes that anyone who cannot realize that they are part of God are "separate" and are holding back the rest of humanity from achieving their ultimate goal of "Oneness with God" and the Kingdom of God on Earth. Therefore, they must be removed...dealt with...exterminated (sound familiar?). Oneness cannot be obtained as long as there is even one separatist alive. So, the great persecution of True Christians begins...we must be fully informed, discerned of God's Truth (Holy Scripture), and protected by the Full Armor of God in these coming days lest we be "caught sleeping." </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Imagine, if you will, the Rockefeller (I used this tree because he is a Mason...hmmmmm) Christmas Tree being lit. Wait a minute! One bulb does not work so the whole tree doesn't lite up. This is much the same principle as "Oneness" in the New Spirituality Movement. That one bulb is holding back the entire tree from illustrious birth (heaven on earth) and MUST be immediately removed WITH PREJUDICE! If you hold out for a belief in a solitary Christ, Jesus, you too will be singled out and removed....PERMANENTLY.<br /><br />I hope this letter finds you in good health and good spirits...the "Truly Good Spirit of Christ" that is...<br /><br />David K. Irwin</span></em></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-17201171558735146462009-09-21T14:19:00.005-06:002009-09-21T22:04:55.792-06:00We Have Come Full Cycle...Apples to Riches.<p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;"><em>Hello and Good Health...</em></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">I had planned on starting each new post with the words from Simon & Garfunkels "Sound of Silence" but decided that would make each entry too lengthy. Besides, I think you get the point without repetition. In the beginning there was Adam, Eve, God, Satan, and an apple tree. Satan took on the form of a serpent and enticed Eve to try a bite from the apple on the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil"...or, so the story goes. This tale of temptation and weakness...inherent goodness and inherent evil...has been around forever it seems...many religions having different versions. But, what is the story really about? Is just a parable explaining what Christians call "the sinful nature of man" or is it something else? Is it a warning about inherent evil in the world? Does it tell us anything about when Satan fell from Heaven? Or, does it simply mean that women are man's downfall? (please...no hate mail).</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">To tell you the honest truth, I have no idea. I like to believe that God's Word written in the Holy Bible is the spoken Word of God written verbatim as He dictated it to the authors of the many books of the Bible. But, that's just me and my belief. Each of us must determine for ourselves how much, if any, of the Bible we take literally. What I can tell you is that the example of Adam & Eve's downfall has come full cycle in our world today. No...there's no serpent (well, not yet anyways) and you can still eat apples without worrying about being cast out of America or wherever you are. However, we are all being given a chance, once again, to choose between good and evil.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">The reality of Eve's choice was to remain as she was...a naked, beautiful, healthy, sin-free, innocent woman who could live an eternity in Eden...or, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and become "like a god" or one with God and attain all the knowledge of good and evil. The temptation proved to be too much for Eve and she succumbed to Satan's forked tongue. Satan gave Jesus the very same choice in the desert when he said he could give all the Kingdoms of the World to Jesus to rule as they were his to give as promised by God. Jesus did not give in to Satan's trickery but rather chose the Kingdom of God...His Father...a Kingdom of Eternity. Today, you and I are facing a whole new plague of trickery from Satan.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">He is going to and fro with his many helpers (New Light Leaders, Maitreya, the Ancient Ones, shadowers, the Desert Fathers, etc.) convincing important people...influential people...here on Earth that they can become "one" with God. That, indeed, they are gods because god is in everything and in everyone. It is the exact same ploy Satan used on Eve only it is very cleverly hidden within a message of "Feel Good" faith. But, don't be fooled! It is a faith based in deeds and accomplishments and not in sound Biblical Truth. As a matter of fact, the proponents of this new faith or New Spirituality (as they call it) will tell you that the bible is not to be taken literally. It is not the Word of God but just a story about how to live. I believe that Satan is manipulating many important people today...perhaps even Barrack Obama, Rick Warren, Gorbachev, Leonard Sweet, Oprah Winfrey and many more. Read this excerpt from "Appolyon Rising 2012" by Tom Horn in Part 8, June 1, 2009:</span></em></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;">Signs and evidence of such supernatural involvement in the current move towards worldwide totalitarian government have been increasing in political commentary, occult symbolism and numerological ‘coincidences’ over the past decade. As public opinion is engineered toward final acceptance of the international subordination, we would expect to see these ‘mirrors of occult involvement’ continue. Recently there have been so many semiotic messages (visible signs and audible references that communicate subliminal ideas) in the open that it is starting to feel as if the ‘gods’ are mocking us; challenging whether or not we will willingly admit their involvement. This has been exponentially true since the election of US President Barack Hussein Obama, the ‘President of the world’ according to news services around the planet. While the grandiose title “President of the world” granted Obama by euphoric crowds on election night remains to be prophetic, the glorified ideal behind it reflects the global hunger for, and movement toward, the arrival of ‘the one’ who represents the invisible agencies mentioned above and who, for a while, will appear to be the world’s answer man.Consider the unprecedented messianic rhetoric that reporters, politicians, celebrities and even preachers used in celebrating the ‘spiritual nature’ of Obama’s meteoric rise from near obscurity to US President. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford characterized it as “a sort of powerful luminosity.” In Morford’s opinion, this was because Obama is “a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to… help usher in a new way of being on the planet…” [12] The dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, Lawrence Carter, went further, comparing Obama to the coming of Jesus Christ: “It is powerful and significant on a spiritual level that there is the emergence of Barack Obama… No one saw him coming, and Christians believe God comes at us from strange angles and places we don’t expect, like Jesus being born in a manger.” [13] Dinesh Sharma, a marketing science consultant with a PhD in Psychology from Harvard appraised Obama likewise: “Many… see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.” [14] It would have been easy to dismiss such commentary as the New Age quiverings of loons had it not been for similar passion on the lips of so many people. The following is a brief list of like expressions from a variety of news sources:</span></p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;"><p><br />“Barack’s appeal is actually messianic… he… communicates God-like energy… What if God decided to incarnate as men preaching ‘hope and change.’ And what if we… let them slip away, not availing ourselves… to be led by God!” Steve Davis, Journal Gazette [15]</p><p><br />“This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament! I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.” Chris Matthews, MSNBC [16]</p><p><br />“Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?” Daily Kos [17]</p><p><br />“Obama, to me, must be not just an ordinary human being but indeed an Advanced Soul, come to lead America out of this mess” Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times [18]</p><p><br />“He is not operating on the same plane as ordinary politicians…the agent of transformation in an age of revolution, as a figure uniquely qualified to open the door to the 21st century.” Former US Senator Gary Hart, Huffington Post [19]</p><p><br />“He is not the Word made flesh [Jesus], but the triumph of word over flesh [better than Jesus?]…Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.” Ezra Klein, Prospect [20]</p><p><br />“Obama has the capacity to summon heroic forces from the spiritual depths of ordinary citizens and to unleash therefrom a symphonic chorus of unique creative acts whose common purpose is to tame the soul and alleviate the great challenges facing mankind.” Gerald Campbell, First Things First [21]</p><p><br />“Obama was… blessed and highly favored…I think that… his election… was divinely ordered… I’m a preacher and a pastor; I know that that was God’s plan… I think he is being used for some purpose.” Janny Scott, New York Times [22]</p><p><br />“He won’t just heal our city-states and souls. He won’t just bring the Heavenly Kingdom — dreamt of in both Platonism and Christianity — to earth. He will heal the earth itself.” Micah Tillman, The Free Liberal [23]</p><p><br />“The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.” Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Politico [24]</p><p>Though he tried to keep it subtle himself, Obama encouraged such public perception of him as an ‘anointed’ one whose time had come. Officially produced Obama campaign advertising consistently used such words as ‘faith,’ ‘hope,’ and ‘change.’ Republican nominee John McCain picked up on this during his run for office and put out a cynical video called </span><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;">“The One.”</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;"> Using some of Obama’s own words against him, the video mocked Obama’s play as a Christ-like figure, showing him in New Hampshire saying, “a light beam will shine through, will light you up, and you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack!” The video failed to mention that having an “epiphany” actually means the sudden realization or comprehension of an appearance of deity to man. Another part of the video included Obama during his nomination victory speech in St. Paul, Minnesota, saying, “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Anybody that followed the presidential campaign would have picked up the same nuances—angelic children organized to sing about Obama, logos depicting rays of sunlight beaming out from his ‘O’ shaped hand sign (a gesticulation Hitler used as well), books such as Nikki Grimes “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope” (Simon & Schuster), comparisons to Plato’s ‘Philosopher King’ without whom our souls will remain broken, comparisons to the ‘spiritually enlightened’ Mahatma Gandhi, comparisons to the Solar Hero Perseus, comparisons to Jesus Christ and even comparisons to God Himself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;">While all this was highly unusual, even unprecedented, it was not surprising. Obama had spent significant time during the campaign distancing himself from conservative Christians, evangelicals and especially the Religious Right (which had held prominent sway over Republicans since Ronald Reagan held office) countering that his faith was more universalist and unconvinced of Bible inerrancy. In a 5-minute video available on </span><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=LXcvbnzNIjg&feature=related"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;">YouTube</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;">, a pre-election speech by Obama was highly cynical of Bible authority and even derided specific Old and New Testament scriptures. “Whatever we once were,” Obama says on the video, “we’re no longer a Christian nation,” adding, “Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific values… this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do.” [31] Consequently, the conscious effort by Obama to reorient America away from conventional Christianity was widely embraced by people who identified with the man who carried a tiny idol of the Hindu god Hanuman in his pocket—whose blessings he sought in the race to the White House—together with a Madonna and child. For Obama, who grew up in a household where the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagvat Gita sat on a shelf side by side, organized religion was best defined as “closed-mindedness dressed in the garb of piety,” but a useful political tool nonetheless. And so he used it masterfully, and earned a cult following while doing so. By February 2009, Obama had replaced Jesus Christ as America’s No. 1 hero according to a Harris poll, and dedication to his come-one come-all mysticism has continued to spread, with evangelists of the new religion calling for the ‘tired’ faith of our fathers to be replaced with a global new one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#000000;">Although it is more difficult to understand the broad appeal of Obama’s New Age philosophy to the many evangelical and Catholic voters who supported him, the phenomenon can be explained to some degree as the result of a changing culture. Over the past 50 years and especially as baby-boomers listened attentively to pastors telling them to focus on human potential and the “god within us all,” eastern philosophies of Monism, Pantheism, Hinduism, and Self Realization grew, providing Americans with an alluring opportunity to throw off the “outdated ideas” of fundamental Christianity and to espouse a more “enlightened” monistic worldview (all is one). Aimed at accomplishing what the builders of the Tower of Babel failed to do (unify the masses of the world under a single religious umbrella), God was viewed as pantheistic and humans were finally understood to be divine members of the whole “that God is.” Pagans argue this principle of inner divinity is older than Christianity, which is true. The gospel according to such New Age concepts—a gospel of “becoming god”— is as old as the fall of man. It began when the serpent said to the woman “ye shall be as gods” (Gen. 3:5), and it will zenith during the reign of the anti-Christian god-king.</span></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">If...just if...Satan does have a plan to unite the world in peace with one leader, one government, and one religion, and if...just if...that one person is an instrument of Satan's to eventually force all the people in the world to take his mark, live as he determines, and call him god...what better way to start out than by convincing many of today's most popular political, clerical, authoritarian, and entertainment figures that the true path to happiness and survival (survival being very important) is to accept the idea that we are each gods in our own rights. With no guilt, no fear of death, no sin, and no need for redemption or salvation, what is the downside? I mean, isn't that what everyone wants...a guilt-free life without having to change one eyeota? And, all you have to do to join up is say, "I believe in Oneness...that we are all gods because god is in everything." Or, to paraphrase it: Take a bite of this apple and you will be like God. Hey, I'll even have one of my shadowing demons dictate a book about Quantum life, Comtemplative Prayer, or some other nonsense and make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">You might say to yourself about now, "Well, that's just plain silly. That will never happen...people are too smart to allow that to happen." Well, think again! It is already happening all over the world and Maitreya, the self-proclaimed anti-christ is already buddying up to Gorbachev, Oprah, and too many others to name. He is staying in the shadows for now...but his helpers are possessing more and more people every day and soon it will be too late to stop the tide of change. I can't help but wonder where our church leadership is at this crucial time of salvation for so many people who are being falsely saved by a false christ. Why aren't they ringing the church bells and crying out for the Truth of God? Why are they standing idly by while author after author destroys the Word of God and Bible Scripture? Why aren't they screaming when Rick Warren meddles in political affairs where he has no business being? Why? Why? Why?</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">As Christians, too many of us have become passively objective and blatantly blinded by the importance our church leaders are putting on "feeling good about ourselves." Don't misunderstand me. There is nothing wrong with that...but it is not enough. We also have to fight Satan at every turn and we cannot do that if we have no idea what he is up to. Has your church talked about Satan and what he is doing in the world today to win the battle of eternal life in the last week? In the last month? In the last year????? Sadly, my church has not spoken about it once in more than a year that I have attended. Salvation is not gained by feeling good about ourselves for what we have done to change our lives or the lives of others. Salvation is not gained by deeds alone! Salvation only comes through a personal relationship with Christ Jesus, the Son of God. And the only way that God is in us is through the indwelling Holy Spirit. God is not inherently in everyone as New Agers would have you believe. They will come at you from every angle with things to make you feel good, things to make your life more functional, things to make you wealthier, things to make you give more, and things to make you think that that is enough. But, the important word in that message is "things"!!!! Apples to Riches...God to Satan...satisfaction to neediness...sin to sinless...nothing to plenty. You choose the side you want to be on...one leads to an eternity of life with God...the other leads to an eternity in the Lake of Fire with Satan. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Everyone seems to think it is simple to tell the difference between good and evil...well, it's not always cut and dry. Satan is no fool...actually, he is one of God's highest ranked angels and it wasn't until his rivalry and his attempt to sabotage God's rule that he lost the favor of Heaven. Now, he rules on Earth...it is his domain...his Kingdom for a time... and he will not give it up without a battle and a very clever plan. To convince millions of people that Contemplative Prayer, mysticism, idol worship, yoga, incense, shadowing, and other mystical and occult practices are not only appropriate, but a logical and acceptable path to a new found freedom and understanding of god's nature is not only clever, it is diabolical. By the time anyone raises an alarm, billions of people will already find themselves under the influence of demons who will be shadowing their every thought and action. Satan will use those who are most influential to change the very intrastructure of the world's governing mechanism so that one person will be in charge...one government, one ruler, one religion. Then, it will be too late.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Yours in Christ, friendship, and LOVE...</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">David K. Irwin</span></em></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-28858605689710112902009-08-20T17:16:00.009-06:002009-08-20T19:56:56.166-06:00With a heavy heart...<span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;"><em>Greetings fellow believers and curiousity seekers...first, allow me to aplogize for the lengthiness of this article...but, it is of utmost importance.</em></span><br /><p><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:78%;color:#000099;">Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly in creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.</span></p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:78%;"><p><br /><span style="color:#000099;">In restless dreams, I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone. 'Neath the halo of an East street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp, when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night and touched the sound of silence.</span></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000099;">And, in the naked light, I saw ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share and no one dare disturb the sound of silence.</span></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"Fools" said I, "You do not know…Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you!" But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence.</span></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000099;">And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls." And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000099;"></span></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">It is with a heavy heart that I am writing to you today. Our founding fathers from some of our most devoted (to fundamentalist Christian belief) congregations are quickly being removed from office to make room for the Emerging Church of Mystic Comtemplation and the New Age Spirituality Movement. It saddens me greatly to see church after church turn to this occultism as the world is quickly being consumed by the teachings of the antichrist. All I can do is continue to publish articles and talk about how our basic truths found in scripture are being replaced by such things as "Oneness", the belief in "As Above, So Below" or an immanent God, fractals, Chaos Theory, and Quantum Spirituality.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">This past weekend, Rick Warren and Saddleback Ministries held their Summit 2009 meeting. I have not heard the details as of yet...but, I am most interested to see how many of the New Age/New Spirituality proponents were present and who gave speeches at this huge convention. Twitter was all a-Twitter with many comments about how moving an experience it was. Too bad that the movement that is moving people is into a false christianity hosted by a false prophet. Now, I hope I don't lose you folks here that are fans of Rick Warren and his Purpose Driven drive to world PEACE...because the segment that follows from Lighthouse Trails Publishing is all about Rick Warren, the Calvary Chapel movement, contemplative worship, and too many other important things to list. Anyone who does not read it...well, let's just say that Satan has a way of keeping his followers from hearing the Truth...and <strong>here follows the honest to God truth about what is happening in our churches today and what every Christian should know</strong>.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></em> <span style="arial"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;">SPECIAL REPORT: Calvary Chapel Termination Has Profound Implications</span></p></span> <span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Lighthouse Trails regrets to report that on May 5th, Paul Smith, brother of Chuck Smith (the founder of the Calvary Chapel movement), was fired from his position in the Calvary Chapel (CCOF) organization during an unscheduled meeting that day. The motion to fire Paul Smith was made by board member Roger Wing and seconded by Chuck Smith's son-in-law, Brian Broderson. Other board members affirmed the motion, and Paul Smith was dismissed.<br /><br />For some time now Paul Smith, who has been in full-time ministry since 1951, has been putting forth tireless efforts to help keep contemplative and emerging spirituality out of the Calvary Chapel movement. At times, this caused conflict with other Calvary Chapel figures who did not resonate with these efforts. This Lighthouse Trails report is being presented because of recent statements such as the following that give a biased view of Paul Smith's role at Calvary Chapel: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Smith's desire to codify and enforce not only the "Distinctives," but positions on such matters as "The Shack" and secondary doctrinal issues was at odds with other people in leadership and that eventually cost him his job. Smith was working out of a deep desire to see his brothers legacy remain intact and define what was and wasn't "Calvary Chapel." While I think his motives were pure they also brought a sense of restriction and censorship to many in the movement. (from a Reformed Calvinist pastor, formerly a Calvary Chapel pastor, who runs a blog called Phoenix Preacher)</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Comments made on that site suggesting that Paul Smith's firing was warranted have prompted this Lighthouse Trails report. This is the story behind the story.<br /><br />On May 2nd of 2006, Lighthouse Trails was contacted by someone who wishes to remain anonymous who explained that a book written by Chuck Smith Senior contained quotes by and references to contemplative and emerging figures. In our efforts to expose the contemplative/emerging movement, Lighthouse Trails reviewed the book then issued an article titled, </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"What Happened to the Calvary Chapel Book, <i>When Storms Come</i>?."</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> The article stated that Chuck Smith's book <i>When Storms Come</i> contained quotes by and references to contemplative Catholic mystic Anthony DeMello, for one. DeMello is discussed in Ray Yungen's book, <i>A Time of Departing</i>. De Mello wrote the contemplative classic called <i>Sadhana: A Way to God</i> and in that book he says: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">To silence the mind is an extremely difficult task. How hard it is to keep the mind from thinking, thinking, thinking, forever thinking, forever producing thoughts in a never-ending stream. Our Hindu masters in India have a saying: one thorn is removed by another. By this they mean that you will be wise to use one thought to rid yourself of all the other thoughts that crowd into your mind. One thought, one image, one phrase or sentence or word that your mind can be made to fasten on. (<i>A Time of Departing</i>, p. 75).</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Prior to this first article, Lighthouse Trails had begun a working relationship with Roger Oakland who had been involved with the Calvary Chapel movement (teaching and evangelizing) for about twenty five years. We were in the early stages of contracting with Roger Oakland for a book on the emerging church.<br /><br />On May 18th, Chuck Smith emailed Lighthouse Trails and stated: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">[I have] prepared a position paper to be distributed to the Calvary Chapel pastors on the subject of the Emergent Church and its many divergent and unscriptural theological positions that trouble me greatly.</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Chuck Smith also thanked Lighthouse Trails for sending him a copy of <i>A Time of Departing</i>, which he said he "read with interest," then added "[</span><a><i><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>A Time of Departing</u></span></i></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">] resonates with the concerns that I personally have concerning the direction that many ministries seem to be taking in their endeavor to unify all faiths. I do believe that straight is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and as Jesus said, He is that way, He is the truth, and the life, and no man can come to the Father but by Him."<br /><br />Three days later, we reported that Calvary Chapel released </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>a Position Paper</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, denouncing mystical practices (i.e., contemplative prayer) and the emerging church. A </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>second Lighthouse Trails article</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> discussed this move initiated by Chuck Smith Sr: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This weekend, a position paper addressed to pastors was posted on the Calvary Chapel website. The paper indicates that Calvary Chapel is taking a stand against contemplative spirituality and the emerging church and decrees that the title Calvary Chapel not be attached to such movements.</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">In the Position Paper, Calvary Chapel pastors were told not to use the Calvary Chapel title on their church name if they were going to go in the contemplative/emerging direction. On May 25, 2006, Lighthouse Trails released a follow-up article titled, </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"Calvary Chapel May Face Challenge in Upholding Position Paper"</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. In the article, we quoted Roger Oakland regarding the Position Paper: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Calvary Chapel is at a critical point in the history of the movement. If clear correction is made, then the movement will go on and become a lighthouse in these last days. If nothing more happens than a written statement, and pastors and churches are permitted to carry the name Calvary Chapel but embrace contemplative, purpose driven, seeker friendly market driven ideas, the movement will break into various segments. There are many Calvary Chapel pastors who are asking for this kind of clear cut direction and want Calvary Chapel to remain what it once was. </span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">On June 3, 2006, in our article titled, </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"Calvary Chapel May Set Precedent at This Week's Pastors Conference"</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, we reported that Chuck Smith Jr, then pastor of Calvary Chapel Capo Beach, was officially no longer part of the Calvary Chapel movement because of his contemplative/emerging affinities. It appeared that Calvary Chapel was going to stand strong on their commitment to maintain biblical integrity, even though this was a very painful situation for family members. At that time, Paul Smith expressed his deep sadness at his nephew's decision to embrace contemplative/emerging spirituality. Our article also stated: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Calvary Chapel may be the first large ministry that has been directly influenced to actually denounce the false teachings of these movements. If Calvary Chapel stands firm on defending the gospel message and rejecting these heretical doctrines, it may be setting a precedent for other Christian ministries to do likewise. With organizations such as Purpose Driven, Zondervan, NavPress publishers, Willow Creek and Renovare all promoting contemplative spirituality and with many other ministries appearing to head that way, it is becoming less and less popular to do what Calvary Chapel has done. But it is a time in history when compromising the integrity of the gospel could actually help to unfold the greatest spiritual deception Christianity has ever seen.</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Then on June 16, 2006, we issued a short notice titled </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"Calvary Chapel Rejects Purpose Driven and Emerging Spirituality"</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. In an unexpected move, Calvary Chapel came out publicly against the Purpose Driven movement. Our posting stated: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This week a notice was placed on the Calvary Chapel Distribution website recalling Chuck Smith Sr's book, <i>When Storms Come </i>(which had been tampered with). The notice (no longer online) also stated: "The teaching and positions of Rick Warren have come into conflict with us at Calvary Chapel. Pastor Chuck has directed us to discontinue this product effective immediately." </span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Shortly thereafter, Calvary Distribution (the resource arm of Calvary Chapel) removed all Purpose Driven materials from their resource database. In the meantime, Roger Oakland was beginning to receive increased criticism for his stand against Purpose Driven and the emerging church. In a July 2006 article, he explained some of his concerns in an article titled, </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"Calvary Chapel and Purpose Driven"</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. He told what he believed to be the main reasons why Calvary Chapel and Purpose Driven do not resonate with each other: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Why did Calvary Distribution remove Rick Warren's Purpose Driven books and related materials from their distribution? I believe these four reasons I have discussed are reasonable and a valid answer to that question:<br /><br />Differences in Eschatology<br /><br />Differences with regard to the Emerging Church<br /><br />Differences with regard to contemplative prayer and mysticism<br /><br />Differences with regard to church growth principles and beliefs.<br /><br />Christianity has always been made up of strong leaders who take different positions. In this case, we see two well-known contemporary leaders going in two different directions. I also know that many Calvary Chapel pastors approved the decision and applauded Calvary Distribution when the Rick Warren materials were no longer being distributed.<br /><br />Because there are some Calvary pastors who strongly disagree with this decision, it is very possible that in the future there will be a split of the Calvary Chapel movement. The pressures on young pastors today to conform to the current trends for the sake of having a successful big church are ever increasing.</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Over the next several months, Roger Oakland wrote </span><a><i><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Faith Undone: the emerging church--a new reformation or an end-time deception</u></span></i></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. The book was released in the summer of 2007 and documents many irrefutable connections between some of today's most popular and influential proclaiming-Christian leaders: Rick Warren, Brian McLaren, Bob Buford, Peter Drucker, Richard Foster, Bill Hybels, Leith Anderson, and others. It also reveals the financial backing that was behind the birth of the current emerging church movement, showing that the movement wasn't just the "discontent grumblings of young people looking for answers" (back cover) but entailed a far more structured effort to bring about a new mystical spirituality that would ultimately reject the very core of the Bible's main tenets. Because the book connected dots between the emerging church and highly regarded leaders, needless to say it rocked the boat.<br /><br />Over the next few months after <i>Faith Undone </i>was released, Roger Oakland spoke in different locations around the world, warning believers about the new spirituality that had entered the Christian church. Then two days after he posted an article called </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Icabod</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, Roger was promptly removed from Calvary Chapel's radio network/station, KWVE. In </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>our article</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> "Roger Oakland Removed from Calvary Chapel Radio", we stated: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Lighthouse Trails contacted KWVE on November 19th [2007] to confirm the removal [of Roger Oakland] and to find out the reason this took place. Richard McIntosh, KWVE station manager, confirmed the removal and told Lighthouse Trails that while he knew the reason, he would not comment. </span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">During this time period, Roger Oakland and Lighthouse Trails were receiving angry and threatening phone calls and emails by unidentified persons. Nevertheless, we knew we must stay the course.<br /><br />While the long-time relationship between Roger Oakland and Calvary Chapel became highly strained, in a meeting between Roger Oakland and Chuck Smith, Pastor Smith affirmed his support of Roger Oakland and his ministry. It should be noted too that on a number of occasions, Chuck Smith has expressed his support for the work at Lighthouse Trails. And to our knowledge, he has never reneged on his original statements to keep contemplative/emerging/Purpose Driven out of the Calvary Chapel movement. In fact, Chuck Smith invited former New Age follower-turned-Christian Warren Smith to speak at the 2008 Calvary Chapel Senior Pastors Conference in Murrieta, California. </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Warren Smith</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> delivered a powerful exhortation to pastors on June 5th, 2008, encouraging Calvary Chapel pastors to stand during these times of great spiritual deception that the Bible warns will take place in the last days.</span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>1</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> A large number of the 800 pastors in attendance gave Warren Smith a standing ovation, indicating that <i>many</i> Calvary Chapel pastors resonate with Warren Smith's message, which is the same message as Roger Oakland, Ray Yungen, and Lighthouse Trails.<br /><br />But as with most denominations and Christian organizations, there are indications that contemplative/emergent/Purpose Driven is continuing to influence the Calvary Chapel movement contrary to the efforts and statements of Chuck Smith in 2006. For instance, Calvary Chapel speaker Gayle Erwin has come out strong in support of the New Age sympathizing book, <i>The Shack</i>. Erwin's endorsement for William Paul Young's <i>New York Times </i>best-seller sits on <i>The Shack </i>website, and says: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Riveting, with twists that defy your expectations while <i>teaching powerful theological lessons </i>without patronizing. I was crying by page 100. You cannot read it without your heart becoming involved. [emphasis added]</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Even though a statement was issued by Calvary Chapel denouncing <i>The Shack</i>, which is reported in our article </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"New Age Similarities, Popularity Continues, and Calvary Chapel Gives Official Statement" </u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, Gayle Erwin continues speaking at Calvary Chapel churches today.<br /><br />In the summer of 2008, Lighthouse Trails issued a controversial article titled, </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"Greg Laurie Connects Purpose Driven to a Move of God - Gives Financial Support"</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. Laurie, one of the most popular Calvary Chapel pastors had given financial support to Rick Warren's New York crusade, and at the same time, called the Purpose Driven movement a move of God. This was disheartening for those who hoped that Calvary Chapel was truly going to stand strong against the heretical teachings of the day. Later, Greg Laurie's ministry issued a statement denying that they had financially supported the crusade, but Lighthouse Trails spoke with crusade organizers who had not only placed the information on their website but confirmed it to us over the phone. In September 2008, we issued a follow-up report: </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Warren, Blanchard, Hybels, Laurie, Buford - Launching New York Leadership Center</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">.<br /><br />Concerns over the direction that the Calvary Chapel movement may go after Chuck Smith is no longer heading the organization have continued to grow. And now with Paul Smith, who strongly advocated and supported his brother's hopes of having a NON-contemplative/emerging/Purpose Driven movement, those concerns are mounting. Just two weeks ago, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa (home church of Chuck Smith Sr.) hosted a </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Pure Worship Conference</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, which included worship leaders from the nearby Rock Harbor church. Rock Harbor has shown signs that it is being significantly influenced by the emerging church, including having had their youth group study New Age sympathizer </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><u><span style="color:#0066cc;">Rob Bell's book, <i>Velvet Elvis </i></span></u></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, for three weeks. A few months ago, Rock Harbor held a meeting due to concerns by congregants as to whether they were going emergent or not. Approximately 700 people showed up!<br /><br />A second event is scheduled between Rock Harbor and Calvary Chapel at the end of May, </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Movement 2009</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. The conference will take place at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and will feature Rock Harbor's teaching pastor Mike Erre and worship team. Mike Erre is the author of a new book, </span><a><i><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Death by Church: Rescuing Jesus from His Followers; Recapturing God's Hope for His People</u></span></i></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">. The book is filled with </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>kingdom-now theology</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> and numerous favorable references to and quotes by people like Brian McLaren, Dallas Willard, and other contemplative, emerging figures. Based on this book alone, it is accurate to say that Erre has all the earmarks of an emerging church pastor. In Erre's 2008 book, <em>Why Guys Need God</em>, he quotes and references a number of contemplative mystic-proponents: Richard Rohr, Larry Crabb, Pete Scazzero, Rob Bell, and others. It is very clear by Erre's remarks about Richard Rohr (whom he references over a half a dozen times in the book) that he esteems him highly. And yet Rohr's spirituality would be in the same camp as someone like Matthew Fox (author of <i>The Coming of the Cosmic Christ</i>) who believes in pantheism and panentheism. Rohr wrote the foreword to a 2007 book called <i>How Big is Your God?</i> by Jesuit priest (from India) Paul Coutinho. In Coutinho's book, he describes an interspiritual community where people of all religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity) worship the same God. How ironic that Paul Smith's firing is sandwiched between two Rock Harbor events at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Members at that church should be very, very concerned.<br /><br />Recently we reported on Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's high school in which a teacher there asked his class to read, review, and study <i>How to Stay Christian in College </i>written by Protestant-turned-Catholic J. Budziszewski . The book has references in the back of some editions to mystic emergent Tony Jones, and Budziszewski himself is a proponent of contemplative prayer practices. Our article </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>"Concerned Family Asks Legitimate Questions of Christian Leaders"</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> illustrates what many families are going through in trying to protect their children and teens from spiritual deception. Christian parents must realize that the souls of their youth are at stake.<br /><br />Paul Smith came on board to Calvary Chapel about four years ago to help with what could possibly be a sinking ship. Paul believed that the only answer for the movement was to hold to the basic tenets of biblical Christianity. As he learned of the various emerging/contemplative/Purpose Driven influences pouring into Calvary Chapel, he often spoke up but was also often received with resistance--until last Tuesday, when an impromptu meeting in the middle of the day brought his efforts to a halt.<br /><br />When we spoke with Paul Smith this week, he was packing his things, preparing to leave Calvary Chapel. At approximately 80 years old, his mind sharp and his focus straightforward, Paul isn't sure where he will go from here. He isn't sure of the future of Calvary Chapel anymore either. But he is sure of this - the One whom He seeks to serve is faithful and will in these last days draw a line in the sand and ask every true believer to step on the side of biblical truth. Paul sent us an email a few days after his dismissal. We asked him if we could post part of it, and he agreed: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">I have enjoyed serving our Calvary Chapel pastors through Calvary Chapel Outreach Fellowship. Calvary Chapel is a wonderful and surprising work of God. It has been used by God to hold fast to simply teaching the Word of God, book-by-book and verse-by-verse, the whole counsel of God.... It is my prayer that we hold fast to the sufficiency of the Word of God and the sufficiency of the Holy Spirit to guide this blessed ministry of God. My heart's desire is to follow the way of my Lord Jesus Christ. I like what the prophet Isaiah and David have to say about the true Judge who would come and dwell among us and His method and His heart in righteous judgment.<br /></span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Isa 11:1-5: And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD ; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD : and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This situation with Calvary Chapel is not isolated. Nearly every evangelical denomination and organization of any size in North America is going in this same direction to one degree or another. One key factor in why this is happening so rapidly is that Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries are heavily saturated with contemplative/emerging spirituality. </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Biola University</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, for instance, where many Calvary Chapel pastors have attended and graduated, is deeply involved in this "new spirituality."<br /><br />The spirituality of the desert fathers has gotten a grip on the current theological thought and practice like no one could have predicted just a few years ago, thanks largely in part to the emerging church and the work of Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. Remember, mysticism is what gives the emerging church its momentum. Holistic doctor and author </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>Dr. Rick Levy revealed</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"> that in 2008 17 million Americans were practicing meditation (eastern-style). That number is up from 10 million in 2003. At that rate, in another five years it will probably be somewhere between 20 and 25 million. There is no doubt that this surge of mysticism will have a profound effect on virtually every North American family. This statistic is sobering when you consider what Richard Kirby observed: </span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">The meditation of advanced occultists is identical with the prayer of advanced mystics; it is no accident that both traditions use the same word for the highest reaches of their respective activities: contemplation. (<i>Mission of Mysticism</i>, p. 7) </span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Our prayer at Lighthouse Trails is that everyone involved in this issue would take that statement seriously. Mysticism (i.e., the occult) is overtaking all segments of society, and this means that the world is falling under the spell of sorceries (magical arts) that according to the book of Revelation will deceive all nations (Revelation 18:23).<br /><br />We close with this: In </span><a><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><u><span style="color:#0066cc;">Alan Jones' book, <i>Reimagining Christianity</i></span></u></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">, he talks about a mystical spirituality in which not only all the world's religions will be united but all humanity will be united whether religious or not. On the back cover of Jones' book, Brian McLaren claims that this view "stimulates" and "encourages" him "deeply" and that Christianity is moving away from "dogma" (doctrine) toward "authentic spirituality" (mysticism).<br /><br />With the termination of Paul Smith and the embracing of and teaming up with an emerging church, is this "authentic spirituality" the direction that Calvary Chapel is going to go? The answer to that question is becoming clearer all the time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">In His grace,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Editors at Lighthouse Trails Research</span><br /><br /><br /><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>www.lighthousetrails.com</u></span></a></span style="arial"><br /><br /><br /><a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com</u></span></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0066cc;"><u>www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog</u></span></a><p><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">If you haven't already taken the time to read all the articles presented in the form of "Links" above, you should do so now. They are of great importance to your understanding the Truth behind this movement that is taking over all our churches, our schools, our government, OUR CHILDREN, our society, our news, and our very lives. I am sure that is not too late for Rick Warren to change and thereby save millions of people from being deceived...but, I am not very hopeful that, without some divine intervention (and God seems to be allowing Satan a free hand in these end times as predicted in the Bible), he will turn back from broad path he has chosen, which leads nowhere.<br /><p><br />Yours in Christ, friendship, and LOVE...<br /><p>David K. Irwin</p></em></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-32212933779141045492009-08-11T08:09:00.008-06:002009-08-19T17:07:34.996-06:00Under Attack...!<em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Good day & good health...</span></em><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>I am going to start each post from here on with the words from Simon & Garfunkel's song "Sound of Silence" because I have found them to be profoundly accurate to the apathy in today's Christian world. We are living in the sound of silence...here they are...</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly in creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">In restless dreams, I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone. 'Neath the halo of an East street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp, when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night and touched the sound of silence.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">And, in the naked light, I saw ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share and no one dare disturb the sound of silence.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">"Fools" said I, "You do not know…Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you!" But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><o:p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls." And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.</span></span></p></span></i></span></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Since I have openly admitted that I am committed to battling Satan and his followers, I have been under attack from all directions...even in my sleep. I expected no less from Satan...however, I was somewhat amazed and caught off guard by the rapidity of his attack. It flatters me that Satan should think that what I have to say is so damaging to his task that he take a personal interest in knocking me down. As far as I know, he may be the only one paying attention to my posts. Oh well, my Grandfather, John Capps Irwin, a methodist minister, writer, and theology teacher at Northwestern University in Illinois, used to say, "Any audience on a rainy day is better than none at all." I have been able to fend Satan off by hunkering down and putting on the Full Armor of God. I call on Jesus Christ and His Holy Blood to protect myself and my home against Satan's onslaught. As I mentioned, Satan has even infiltrated my dreams with cocaine nightmares that I have not experienced in many years since quitting that drug. I do not fear anything that Satan throws at me...not one bit! I am fully protected by the Lord Jesus Christ and, even though I walk through the valley of death, I fear no evil! For Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me all the days of my life.</span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Also under attack is Saddleback Church and Rick Warren...and they ought to be! Warren is turning his fellowship into a fiasco of Catholicism. I cannot put this any clearer than the article by Ken Silva that I have copied for you below. If you have had any doubts about the misdirection of Rick Warren and his Saddleback ministry, this article should clear them up for you. <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND RESEARCH THE LINKS.</strong></span></span></em><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></em></strong><br /><br /><a title="Permanent Link to SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR RICK WARREN AND SADDLEBACK CHURCH OPENLY RECOMMEND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY" style="COLOR: rgb(51,0,0); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://apprising.org/2008/11/southern-baptist-pastor-rick-warren-and-saddleback-church-recommend-contemplative-spirituality/" rel="bookmark">SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR RICK WARREN AND SADDLEBACK CHURCH OPENLY RECOMMEND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY</a><br /><br />By <a title="Posts by Ken Silva pastor-teacher" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/author/ken-silva-pastor-teacher/">Ken Silva pastor-teacher</a> on Nov 30, 2008 in <a title="View all posts in AM Missives" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/am-missives/" rel="category tag">AM Missives</a>, <a title="View all posts in Current Issues" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/current-issues/" rel="category tag">Current Issues</a>, <a title="View all posts in Features" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/features/" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a title="View all posts in Rick Warren" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/rick-warren/" rel="category tag">Rick Warren</a>, <a title="View all posts in Southern Baptist Convention" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/southern-baptist-convention/" rel="category tag">Southern Baptist Convention</a><br /><br /><br /><a title="Permanent Link to SADDLEBACK CHURCH PASTORS USING ROB BELL TEACHINGS" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/11/saddleback-church-pastors-using-rob-bell-teachings/" rel="bookmark">Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings</a> here at <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/">Apprising Ministries</a> clearly showed that<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/emergent-church/">Emerging Church</a> icon and teacher of corrupt <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/contemplative-spiritualitymysticism/">Contemplative Sprituality/Mysticism</a> (CSM) <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/rob-bell/">Rob Bell</a> has penetrated deeply into the mainstream of the evangelical community. So far so that Bell’s weekly sermons are recommended, and his Nooma DVDs sold, by pastors of the highly influential Saddleback Church (SC) of <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/rick-warren/">Rick Warren</a>, which is aligned with the <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/southern-baptist-convention/">Southern Baptist Convention</a>.<br /><br />But you must understand that it’s really not all that surprising because we’ve already pointed out in <a title="Permanent Link to RICK WARREN AND SADDLEBACK CHURCH: PRAYER IS NOT FOR THE NOVICE" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/05/rick-warren-and-saddleback-church-prayer-is-not-for-the-novice/" rel="bookmark">Rick Warren and Saddleback Church: Prayer Is Not For The Novice</a> one can purchase books e.g. by <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/teachers/teachers.php?id=259&g=">Living Spiritual Teacher</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/08/contemplating-the-inner-light-of-the-quakers/">Quaker</a> “Roshi” <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/richard-foster/">Richard Foster</a>, as well as titles by Roman Catholic universalist<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/henri-nouwen/">Henri Nouwen</a>, right in the SC bookstore itself. Little wonder because these books are themselves featured in “The Spiritual Growth Center” online at the Saddleback Family (SF) website. In fact, Nouwen is even listed among books “that shaped” the life of Kay Warren (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/maturity/spiritualgrowthcenter/staff/kaywarren.html">Online source</a>) in addition to Nouwen’sSeeds of Hope being recommended in the “Spiritual Formation” section as well (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/maturity/spiritualgrowthcenter/topics/spiritualformation.html">Online source</a>).<br /><br />Well, below follows some of the false hope in the rancid seeds of universalism that Nouwen offered readers foolish enough to grab his non-existent lifeline made of contemplative myth.<br /><br />Nouwen said:<br />Today I personally believe that Jesus came to open the door to God’s house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her way to God. (Sabbatical Journey, 51)<br /><br />Now, the last time I checked that message wasn’t compatible with the historic orthodox Christian faith. Why for that matter, it isn’t even in accord with the much vaunted <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.sbc.net/bfm/">Baptist, Faith & Message</a> of the spiritually squishy SBC either. And in addition there’s also a ”Must Read Books” section at SF. As expected from Warren’s Saddleback we first find his <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.biblebb.com/files/pdc.htm">The Purpose Driven Life</a>; but here we wish to bring to your attention that among these “must read” recommendations from SF we see what they call the “now-classic meditation on grace” Ragamuffin Gospel by teacher of <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/04/origin-of-contemplativecentering-prayer/">Contemplative/Centering Prayer</a> (CCP) mystic <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/10/ragamuffin-spirituality-with-brennan-manning/">Brennan Manning</a> (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/maturity/spiritualgrowthcenter/topics/spiritualdisciplines.html">Online source</a>).<br /><br />For those who don’t know much about Brennan Manning Christian researcher Ray Yungen fills you in:<br /><br />In The Signature of Jesus, Manning teaches how to suspend thought. He instructs his readers methodically:<br /><br />[T]he first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer. [C]ontemplative spirituality tends to emphasize the need for a change in consciousness � we must come to see reality differently. Choose a single, sacred word - repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often. [E]nter into the great silence of God. Alone in that silence, the noise within will subside and the Voice of Love will be heard.<br /><br />If one could draw a spiritual tree of both Manning’s and Foster’s mystical heritage it would look like this: from India, to Alexandria, to the Desert Fathers, to Thomas Merton, to them; and now, through them and others like them, to you. (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/manningexcerptrayone.htm">Online source</a>)<br /><br />So far Saddleback is very SBC alright; Slowly Becoming Catholic. As I mentioned above the SF website even has ”The Spiritual Growth Center” (SGC); If there was any doubt left that Saddleback Church, aligned with the largest allegedly ”Protestant” denomination in the country, is seriously off the rails having fallen deeply into the spurious spirituality of the Counter Reformation of apostate <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/roman-catholicism/">Roman Catholicism</a> then the following ought to drive away the murky mystic fog from your eyes. The second book we find in the SGC is by Richard Foster’s spiritual twin and SBC minister <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/dallas-willard/">Dallas Willard</a>, whom SF says is:<br /><br />one of today’s most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy(Christianity Today’s 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention. (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/maturity/spiritualgrowthcenter/topics/spiritualdisciplines.html">Online source</a>)<br /><br />You can read more concerning Willard in the AM piece <a title="Permanent Link to DELUSIONS OF DALLAS WILLARD" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/08/delusions-of-dallas-willard/" rel="bookmark">Delusions of Dallas Willard</a> so here I will simply point you to an excellent review and refutation of Willard’s book of begging the question by Bob DeWaay who is dead on target when he says:<br /><br />The spiritual disciplines that are supposedly necessary for spiritual formation are not defined in the Bible. If they were, there would be a clear description of them and concrete list. But since spiritual disciplines vary, and have been invented by spiritual pioneers in church history, no one can be sure which ones are valid. Willard says, [W]e need not try to come up with a complete list of disciplines. Nor should we assume that our particular list will be right for others.” The practices are gleaned from various sources and the individual has to decide which ones work the best…<br /><br />Willard offers a discussion of each of these, citing people like <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/08/who-is-thomas-merton/">Thomas Merton</a>, Thomas a Kempis, <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/category/henri-nouwen/">Henri Nouwen,</a> and other mystics. We are told that practices like solitude and silence are going to change us, even though the Bible does not prescribe them… Willard had admitted that there is no clear list of the disciplines and that each person might choose different practices through pragmatic means… Had he been willing to submit to the authority of Scripture, Willard could have refuted these practices based on Colossians 2:21-23. (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue91.htm">Online source</a>)<br /><br />But of course wise advice never stops disobedient children bent of having their own way now, does it. Our SCG also recommends <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/09/celebration-of-discipline-by-richard-foster-an-encyclopedia-of-theological-error/">Celebration of Discipline</a> (CoD) by Richard Foster. As I stated previously, in my estimation, CoD is the textbook for a growing <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/08/the-cult-of-guru-richard-foster-2/">Cult of Richard Foster</a> within evangelicalism as it continues its repudiation of Sola Scripture in favor of highly subjective experience; i.e. a spiritual “buzz.” And the truth is <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.svchapel.org/Ministries/TOTT/index.asp">Dr. Gary Gilley</a> was dead on target when he said of Foster’s magnum opus:<br /><br />Celebration of Discipline alone, not even referencing Foster’s other writings and teachings and ministries, is a virtual encyclopedia of theological error. We would be hard pressed to find in one so-called evangelical volume such a composite of false teaching. These include faulty views on the subjective leading of God (pp. 10, 16-17, 18, 50, 95, 98, 108-109, 128, 139-140, 149-150, 162, 167, 182); approval of New Age teachers (see Thomas Merton below); occultic use of imagination (pp. 25-26, 40-43, 163, 198); open theism (p. 35); misunderstanding of the will of God in prayer (p. 37); promotion of visions, revelations and charismatic gifts (pp. 108, 165, 168-169, 171, 193); endorsement of rosary and prayer wheel use (p. 64); misunderstanding of the Old Testament Law for today (pp. 82, 87); mystical journaling (p. 108); embracing pop-psychology (pp. 113-120); promoting Roman Catholic practices such as use of “spiritual directors,” confession and penance (pp. 146-150, 156, 185); and affirming of aberrant charismatic practices (pp. 158-174, 198). (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.svchapel.org/Resources/Articles/read_articles.asp?id=107">Online source</a>)<br /><br />Finally, there’s the Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (SDH) by <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/author.pl/author_id=1328">Adele Ahlberg Calhoun</a> who is:<br />currently copastor, with her husband, Doug, of Redeemer Community in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was formerly pastor of spiritual formation at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois. A trained spiritual director, she has taught courses at Wheaton College and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. (<a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/author.pl/author_id=1328">Online source</a>)<br /><br />Interesting that SC promotes Calhoun who in violation of God’s Word is allegedly a pastor; but at the same time, fortunately for Rick Warren with the Idol of Autonomy in the SBC he and his church can actually do and recommend whatever they jolly well wish to. And right on the backcover Calhoun tells us this handbook of heresy features how to information on CCP and Lectio Divina. O yes, as I peruse my personal copy of SDH I’m informed I can learn to “open myself to God” through the Examen of Counter Reformation figure Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the spiritual Gestapo Unit aka the Jesuits.<br /><br />I’m also told I will learn the ways I can “reliquish the false self” through mantric meditation ala <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/09/who-is-john-main/">John Main</a> that originated in pagan Eastern religions:<br /><br />Go into silence, placing yourself in the presence of God with the words “Here I am.” As distractions come to mind, let them go by imagining they are boats floating down a river. Let the current take the distractions away. Don’t follow the distractions. Gently return to God repeating “Here I am.” Let the current of God’s Spirit carry you. What is this like for you? (110)<br /><br />Big surprise; one of the “Resources on Silence” Calhoun recommends is another book on CCP by <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/09/who-is-ruth-haley-barton/">Ruth Haley Barton</a>. Actually the list of “Pastor” Calhoun’s acknowledgements is a veritable who’s who of spurious spirituality including Ignatius of Loyola, Willard, Foster, <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/09/who-is-phyllis-tickle/">Phyllis Tickle</a>, <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/05/who-is-richard-rohr/">Richard Rohr</a>, <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2006/04/who-is-teresa-of-avila/">Teresa of Avila</a> “and many more.” Calhoun then informs us that, “Their ideas, voices and examples have shaped my own words and experiences of the disciplines” (10). A sad roll call indeed.<br /><br />And the evangelical drift right back into the spiritual bondage which brought about the Protestant Reformation to begin with continues its accelerating into apostasy.<br /><br />See also:<br /><a title="Permanent Link to SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR RICK WARREN CORRECTS MARTIN LUTHER" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/10/southern-baptist-pastor-rick-warren-corrects-martin-luther/" rel="bookmark">SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR RICK WARREN CORRECTS MARTIN LUTHER</a><br /><a title="Permanent Link to TODD FRIEL: A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE ROB BELL SAYS PUBLICLY PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY IS OK FOR CHRISTIANS" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/11/todd-friel-a-matter-of-time-before-rob-bell-says-publicly-practicing-homosexuality-is-ok-for-christians/" rel="bookmark">TODD FRIEL: A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE ROB BELL SAYS PUBLICLY PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY IS OK FOR CHRISTIANS</a><br /><a title="Permanent Link to DR. ROD ROSENBLADT CALLS RICK WARREN’S MAN-CENTERED THEOLOGY “ROMAN CATHOLIC”" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/09/dr-rod-rosenbladt-calls-rick-warrens-theology-roman-catholic/" rel="bookmark">DR. ROD ROSENBLADT CALLS RICK WARREN’S MAN-CENTERED THEOLOGY “ROMAN CATHOLIC”</a><br /><a title="Permanent Link to CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/11/contemplative-spirituality-of-richard-foster-rooted-in-the-eastern-desert-and-thomas-merton/" rel="bookmark">CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON</a><br /><a title="Permanent Link to SO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE CHRIST… DITCH THE DISCIPLINES OF DALLAS WILLARD" style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,0); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://apprising.org/2008/10/so-you-want-to-be-like-christ-ditch-the-disciplines-of-dallas-willard/" rel="bookmark">SO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE CHRIST… DITCH THE DISCIPLINES OF DALLAS WILLARD</a><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">I will leave you here for this week as there is a good deal of information to be found in the many links associated with this article and, hopefully, you will take advantage of them. I am happy to say that my church, <a href="http://www.teamcountryside.com/">Countryside Community Church,</a> has removed Rick Warren from its list of suggested books to read. Actually, they removed all suggested readings. I do not know if this is a result of my writing about Rick Warren or their own experiences with Saddleback. In either case, I am glad to see they no longer endorse his material on their website...at least, I couldn't find it. I feel that the reading of Rick Warren's material and other authors like him that endorse this New Spirituality concept of "Oneness" with God should be left to those who are aware of the pitfalls associated with reading material laced with arsenic. Even the discerned reader can find his/herself getting led down the wrong path at times. Some of Satan's authors write with a very sweet and attractive voice even though they speak with a forked tongue! </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">My best advice...DO NOT TAKE ANYONE'S WORD FOR GOSPEL!!!! Do your own research and find out for yourself the truth behind the hype. The Interent is only a source of literature and thought...not Gospel Truth. Anyone can write and author anything on the Internet...truth and lies. Be wary and be wise! Ask God for His Knowledge and He will give it gladly...and that you can rely on! But, most of all...BEWARE THE SOUND OF SILENCE!!!! If your church is not speaking about the movements of Satan, they are not doing their job! God made it quite clear in the bible that ours is the Good fight against evil in this world. That Satan comes like a thief in the night...silently. If your church is being silent on this topic, they are aiding Satan...not fighting him!</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Yours in Christ, freindship, and LOVE...</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">David</span></em></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-53037667549993863542009-07-23T07:50:00.009-06:002009-07-23T09:55:33.024-06:00Maitreya and the Disciples of Wisdom (The Watchers).<em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Hello again fellow believers or non-believers...</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">I am going to open this post with a letter I wrote to a dear friend who is in prison. He got involved with the New Age group and they quickly took him from 13 years of sobriety/not smoking, a healthy family, and an excellent job to drunkenness/smoking, divorce, and into prison for embezzlement. His new "New Spirituality" advisor told him that his soul was one with god and therefore he need not fear judgement...that his life was pre-ordained and without sin. He had read most of the books written by new age authors, had several personal life-readings, visited with shodowing spirits (Watchers), bought a Taro deck of cards, and much more. Since he has been in prison, he has sobered up, quit smoking, and is, once again, on the path to Jesus Christ. He has managed to overcome and rid himself of the demon that possessed him for several years. I could only watch as my best friend went from a true believer to a truly lost soul as the overpowering strength of his new spiritual friend destroyed his marriage and life. I thought to myself, "If this can happen to Gary, one of the strongest Christians I have ever known, it can happen to anyone!" What is this power? Who are these spirits?</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Before I copy the letter into this post, I will tell you a bit of what Jesus has had me reading about lately. He (Jesus) sent me to a site run by Thomas Horn called "<a href="http://defenderpublishing.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=14">APOLLYON RISING 2012: The Lost Symbol Found And The Final Mystery Of The Great Seal Revealed. A Terrifying And Prophetic Cipher, Hidden From The World By The U.S. Government For Over 200 Years Is Here</a>." There are 15 posts so far in this series and I was amazed to find many of the same players mentioned here (such as Maitreya and Disciples of Wisdom in Part Fourteen) as I have been reading about in Warren Smith's books. It was amazing because Tom Horn's writings are basically about the history of Freemasonry, Greek Mythology, and the Roman Empire. To find spirits from both ages with the same name is beyond coincidence...don't you think? Well, here is my letter to Gary...</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I am about done with Warren Smith’s newest book, <em>A “Wonderful” Deception: The Further New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Movement</em>. It seems that Rick Warren got so many emails and letters from parishioners around the world that he had to hire two “damage control” people to deal with the dissension. The first one did not do too good a job…he mostly just dodged the real problems and associations by trying to shift the blame. The second one, although more aggressive, did not do a much better job. He too had a very difficult time explaining away Rick Warren’s multiple uses of “New Age” terminology along with his extensive associations with “New Age” authors of all sorts. The first few chapters of Smith’s new book were totally dedicated to reproving, with fervor, what he had already proved. I also read the pdf file, which is free online, of Warren Smith’s called <em>Reinventing Jesus Christ</em>, which was the “who’s who” of New Age terminology, books, and other literature.<br /><br />My new blog, <em>For Heaven’s Sake</em>, is dedicated to fighting the good fight against our adversary, Satan. I am now reading a 15 article blog by Tom Horn called <em>Apollyon Rising 2012</em>. It is dedicated to his forthcoming book of the same title and entails a history of the ancient gods of Greeks and Romans, Freemasons (such as Roosevelt, Franklin, Wallace), and the ideology found on the dollar bill (the pyramid, all-seeing eye, Latin literature, etc.). This new direction the Lord has taken me in is vastly interesting and I am finding common ties to what is happening in the New Spirituality (New Age) Movement today. Such things as “The Watchers” who are Maitreya’s helpers and who were prominent in Greek idol worship. It also has a great deal to do with the fact that there might have been what some have termed “Adomic” intellect that has been forgotten and diluted over the centuries since Adam and Eve and the Fall. It seems Adam may have had a knowledge of the stars that recorded the history of God, Creation, man’s creation, earth’s creation, the angels, and the Universe. In other words, the stars may actually hold the true and first recorded history of Creation (or the first bible). This star-intellect was forgotten with all the other godly knowledge that Adam and Eve had but lost when they chose to be gods themselves (The Fall). God then forbade astrology, since it was no longer blessed by His intellect, and the knowledge became diluted. Now, astrology, as a link or modem to life, death, the past and the future, is to be forsaken and shunned because it is not of godly content and can never be until God himself reveals the true tale. This is important because the fallen angels are the ones that are found throughout Greek and Roman history and may well have had their true pasts diluted in the same manner as the star-intellect. Apollo (Apollyon), or the sun god, may well be the number one angel under Satan who is Saturn in Greek mythology. Do you see where this is headed?<br /><br />All these old mythological gods are the thousands of angels that followed Satan to earth. The Greeks had gods for everything from earth, wind, and fire to disease, health, and marriage. They had a freakin’ god for everything they did. It may well be that these gods/angels came to earth after/before(?) the fall and explained away their appearance as being truly good and beneficial gods…not fallen gods following Satan (I always wondered why the gods messed with Homer’s characters so much…now it makes sense). These are the same gods the Greeks called “The Watchers” because they watched over all matters of life concerning man (inherent evil?). Now, Maitreya says he is bringing back “The Watchers” or, as they have also been called, “The Disciples of Wisdom”. They are already channeling through people worldwide. So, are we headed into a new Roman revival…YES…only now it is called “America’s New Spirituality” whereas it was then called Rome or Babylon under the rule of Nimrod…the most decadent of all historical times when evil ruled the world. Only, this time Jesus will end Satan’s short rule by His return. Satan will move fast during this revival because he knows his reign is limited to a very short time. I look for world peace to happen soon…how?...I don’t know for sure. Will Warren do it? Will Obama do it? It’s not important who gets the credit for the beginning to the end…there won’t be enough history afterwards to make a difference one way or the other.<br /><br />If I have enough money to order Smith’s new book for you this next week, I surely will. In the meantime, be careful what you read. The written word is God’s tool of conveyance to us mortels and is extremely volatile. It can do as much damage as it can good. Joyce Meyer is not an author I would encourage anyone to read. She is more new ager than anything close to our Christ. Her “feel good” Christianity is just the steppingstone to the dilution needed to weaken our armor. Remember your bible Gary…”a little leaven leaveneth the whole loaf.”<br /><br />Until next time my good friend…<br /></span><br /><em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Tom Horn's posts are impelling proof that these very same "Spiritual Guides" that are now organizing, enhancing, and directing the "New Spirituality Movement" are the very same fallen angels that destroyed the great Roman Empire. They were also the ones responsible for the evil that brought God's wrath to Nimrod (great grandson of Noah) and his empire of Babylon. They have been around forever and they seem to cycle reigns of terror. I fear we are headed into a "New Age" of people who are being led by these very same evil angels that have ruled Earth since the beginning of history and the new fall will be "<a href="http://babylonthegreatisfalling.net/">Babylon The Great is Falling</a>" (or America) as Jack Hook explains on his website so thoroughly (a must read!).<br /><br />I will leave you here while I do some more reading and exploring of all these new posts. As I have said before, I would not be doing this at all if it were not for the leading hands of Jesus. He leads me to read what is important and necessary for discerning Christian to know. I never proof read my posts as Jesus leads me to write as I work and His work is impeccable! Often, I will pause during a sentence and the words just seem to suddenly come upon me. This whole post came to me last night before falling asleep and is virtually, word for word, what I visualized last night. My mission from Jesus? To enlighten people...all people...as to the workings of our Adversary...Satan. To keep folks informed as to his movements and his intentions for the souls of as many people as he can fool. Satan is extremely wise (being an angel of highest rank) and extremely evil. He has thousands of angels in his ranks and they are called such names as; Maitreya, The Watchers, The Disciples of Wisdom, Legion, Greek/Roman gods, helpers, channelers, shadowers, and the Antichrist (may be here already in Maitreya). They have to be invited into your life to have any power over you (however, they can have power over other people that have power over you...like government people!) and are much, much harder to get rid of than to allow in. They fool us now in the very same way they fooled Adam and Eve...by saying we can be gods. <br /><br /><strong>Be warned...</strong>they are after your soul...your very life...and they will not quit or give up. Satan's plans are for the fall of mankind in its entirety and, whether you like it or not, you are part of that plan. So, whose side are you playing on?<br /><br />Until next time...God's love and good health to you my friends.</span></em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-76382523613526927142009-07-13T06:20:00.004-06:002009-07-13T08:58:02.420-06:00Maitreya and other "Players" in New Age Religion.<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"><em>These things have I spoken unto you,<br />that ye should not be offended. They<br />shall put you out of the synagogues: yea,<br />the time cometh, that whosoever killeth<br />you will think that he doeth God service.<br />And these things will they do unto<br />you, because they have not known the<br />Father, nor me. But these things have I<br />told you, that when the time shall come,<br />ye may remember that I told you of<br />them.</em></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(John 16:1–4)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">I am come in my Father’s name, and ye<br />receive me not: if another shall come in his<br />own name, him ye will receive.</span></em><br /></span>(John 5:43)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">There is come upon the earth a self-proclaimed Christ figure called Maitreya. He flew down from the mountains so as to fulfil the prophecy of appearing in the heavens. In February of 1982, Wayne Peterson was watching Merv Griffin on television when Merv introduced a new book and its author, <em>The Reappearance of the Christ and The Masters of Wisdom</em>, by Benjamin Creme. This is a paraphrase of Creme speaking to Griffin:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">During this discussion, Creme said that<br />the one Christians call the Christ had re-<br />appeared and was living in a major industrial<br />city in the Western world. This<br />time his name was Maitreya and he was<br />bringing with him a large group of his<br />disciples, highly advanced, spiritual<br />men called the Masters of Wisdom. He<br />said we could expect to hear more about<br />Maitreya on local and international<br />news programs very soon.<br />Maitreya’s purpose, Creme indicated,<br />was to help us realize our innate divinity<br />through learning to live in right relationship<br />as brothers and sisters of one<br />great family. The first step was to establish<br />sharing as the way to eliminate the<br />poverty and starvation that caused millions<br />around the world to die daily in<br />the midst of plenty. Maitreya was<br />emerging in time to help us save ourselves<br />and the planet, and would make<br />himself known to all in a televised ‘Day<br />of Declaration’ soon to come.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">He ordered Creme's book, read it, and came to believe that his "Masters of Wisdom" were what we commonly call angels and that they were here to herald the coming of their Christ...Maitreya. He also claimed that as a child he had been visited by Mary, the mother of Jesus, who, during a time of grave illness, said to him in a dream, " I am going to tell you a secret that few now know. If you stay with your family, you will see the Christ because he will come to live with the people of the world." Now, with the appearance of Maitreya, Peterson began to believe this dream to be prophecy.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">As I read Creme’s book, I learned more<br />about the Christ, or World Teacher,<br />whose personal name is Maitreya. He<br />is the one awaited by all the major religions<br />albeit unknown to them. The<br />Christians wait for the return of the<br />Christ, Buddhists for the next Buddha,<br />Muslims for the Imam Mahdi, Hindus<br />for a reincarnation of Krishna, and the<br />Jews for the Messiah. These are all different<br />names for one individual,<br />Maitreya, who is here not as a religious<br />leader but as a teacher for all humanity.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#990000;">Benjamin Creme, in The Reappearance<br />of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, said:<br /></span>In the esoteric tradition, the Christ is not<br />the name of an individual but of an Office<br />in the Hierarchy. The present holder<br />of that Office, the Lord Maitreya, has<br />held it for 2,600 years, and manifested<br />in Palestine through His Disciple, Jesus,<br />by the occult method of overshadowing,<br />the most frequent form used for the<br />manifestation of Avatars. He has never<br />left the world, but for 2,000 years has<br />waited and planned for this immediate<br />future time, training His Disciples, and<br />preparing Himself for the awesome task<br />which awaits Him. He has made it<br />known that this time, He Himself will<br />come.</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Soon after reading about Maitreya, Peterson was given the opportunity to meet with Benjamin Creme and Maitreya in person in Washington, D.C.. During this visit, Peterson was invited to join a "Transmission Meditation" that he describes as:</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span><p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Called Transmission Meditation, it was<br />a service activity in which energy from<br />the Masters was ‘stepped down’ by the<br />meditators and made available to the<br />world. In the process the meditators’<br />own spiritual development was enhanced<br />manifold. I understood that it<br />was another way to help Maitreya and<br />the Masters emerge as soon as possible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">If this has peaked your interest, you should definitely read Warren Smith's book, "Reinventing Jesus Christ." You can access the pdf file by clicking on the title to this article. Most of what I have written comes directly from his text in chapter 4 titled, "Wayne Peterson and Maitreya." The chapter goes on to tell how Maitreya and his Masters of Wisdom have channeled their powers through such leaders as Mikhail Gorbachev and many of our nations most prestigious senators and congressmen. He explains how just being in the presence of Maitreya one can feel his spiritual energy surging into your body. </span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">To me, this makes perfect sense. If indeed Maitreya is the Antichrist of biblical prophecy, he would have extremely strong spiritual powers...after all, he is a demon of the highest order. Not only good angels have masterful spiritual powers. The fallen angels of Satan also have these powers...as Peterson goes on to explain:</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"></span><p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">As we stood there with spiritual energy<br />flowing freely, I told Maitreya that, if<br />people could experience this energy,<br />they would discard all their earthly notions<br />of ‘paradise'. </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color:#990000;">Gradually over<br />time he was able to meet others in positions<br />of responsibility who had met privately<br />with Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom<br />and were now actively working with them.</span><br /></span>What I did not initially know was that<br />many of my colleagues in government<br />and diplomatic circles had had similar<br />experiences and had also been contacted<br />by members of a group of extraordinary<br />beings, who might be called the elder<br />brothers of humanity, custodians of the<br />Divine Plan for our evolution. World<br />leaders who are household names have<br />privately confirmed their knowledge of<br />and cooperation with this unfolding<br />plan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">This "unfolding plan" that Peterson speaks of is the same plan that Jesus Christ warned us about in the Bible. Time and time again, Jesus spoke of our adversary and how he would come 'as a thief in the night' and that we must be constantly on the defense against false prophets. However, our churches seem to be more concerned about "Revival" and "New Spirituality" and a renewed interest by the public in a new form of religion. Our church leaders have been lulled into a false sense of security by larger and larger numbers of people coming to hear the gospel and "The Good News". The problem is that "The Good News" is not gospel. It is not even close to the spoken Word of God found in biblical Scripture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">As you will find out if you continue to read my articles, Maitreya and his following are not about Jesus Christ whatsoever. As a matter of fact, Maitreya claims that "...Christ is not a person, it is an office...a position held by the man called Jesus whom I shadowed during his lifetime." He claims to be the true Christ. Sound outlandish? Even scary? Well, grab your shirttails because he has millions of followers...many of which are very influential and famous including...are you ready for this...Oprah Winfrey.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Some of the other players and their books are: Alice A. Bailey, "The Reappearance of the Christ" and other books; Benjamin Creme, "The Reappearance of the Christ and The Masters Of Wisdom" and other books; Wayne W. Dyer, "There's a Spiritual Solotion to Every Problem"; Barbara Marx Hubbard author of many books; Neale Donald Walsch, "Conversations With God: an uncommon dialogue, books I, II, III"; Gerald Jampolsky, "Love is Letting Go of Fear"; and, of course, Wayne Peterson, "Extroardinary Times, Extroadinary Beings: Experiences of an American Diplomat with Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom." Many of these authors and their books have been endorsed by Oprah Winfrey on her show. If you watch Oprah, you are undoubtedly familiar with their names. However, you may not be familiar with their agenda.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">In the weeks to come, I will try to introduce each one of these players individually and allow you to see their true colors. They all have the same agenda...to bring about "Oneness" of all people on earth, to engage "Atonement" , which is really pronounced "at-one-ment", to bring about world peace (a pre-cursor to Revelations), and to make us understand that we all have God in us and therefore are all gods (Oneness and at-one-ment concept) and have no need of redemption of sin. What a wonderful concept...no sin, no guilt, no need to change...all we have to do is admit our "Oneness" with God and all is good. The perfect solution to a "hurry-up" world's understanding of Christianity. An "easy to do", "in and out quickly", "one stop" cure to sin. And, after all, if Oprah endorses it (and she does), how could it possibly be wrong?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">What would you say if a person came before you and you immediately felt his supernatural spirituality surge through you and he said he could cure cancer and other diseases (of course Satan can cure these because he made them and, as I will show you later, he is already doing this in hospitals today), could bring about world peace (he creates the atmosphere for war and quit at any time), and could absolve you of all culpability of past iniquities if you simply admit you are at one with him and God? Would you follow such a person? Would you call him Christ?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">I will leave you with this by Warren Smith as he sums up what is happening in our world today, quite clearly, in his book, "Reinventing Jesus Christ":</span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">And the Lord is saying the same thing<br />now to those in the Church who refuse to<br />see what is going on in the world today.<br />God is not in the process of giving the<br />Church “new revelation” that will supercede<br />what He has already given us in His<br />holy Word. He is not in the process of bringing<br />a “new thing” into the Church. He is<br />not in the process of taking His Church to a<br />“new place” or to a “new dimension” or to<br />a “new level.” He is not in the process of<br />bringing in a “new dispensation.” And He<br />most certainly is not in the process of introducing<br />a “new gospel” that contradicts in<br />word and spirit everything He has ever<br />taught us about our life in Christ. No, these<br />are the plans of antichrist, and the Church<br />had better beware.</span><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-31515333529851681402009-06-26T16:51:00.000-06:002009-06-27T07:12:36.136-06:00In The Beginning...<em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#660000;">In the beginning, God set up a few rules...nothing difficult...just guidelines to preserve the Garden of Eden and humankinds virtue. However, Satan had a plan of his own and he used man's weakness to exploit his intentions. This weakness was the very same weakness that got him thrown out of heaven...a desire to be God-like. It appears that the Devil became the prince of this world when he led man (Adam and Eve) to sins against God and thus brought the ruler of earth under his domination (Genesis 1:26:3:1-6; John 12:31; Colossians 1:13; Acts 26:18). Thus was the beginning of man's long ordeal with original sin.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">It wasn't until the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came to earth and died on the cross for the propitiation of our sins that we realized a way out of sin...or, should I say...a way in...to heaven. "That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." (Hebrews 2:18) We are given the ability to overcome our sinful nature by accepting that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is our Savior, and is the only means by which we can enter into Heaven or have a conversation with The Father. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." (John 11:25) "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." (1 Timothy 2:5–6) "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of<br />the whole world." (1 John 2:2)</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Now we have a new standard to live and die by and remember, the scriptures are the inerrant and inspired word of God that have withstood thousands of years of debate and distortion. I have copied (with permission) the basic teachings of the Holy Bible and God's spoken Truth. Do not "...get caught up in the numbers game of six, seven, or eight teachings. The numbers and the fact they all begin with the letter "S" are to make it easier to read and remember. You can rest your eternal soul, spirit, and body upon the truth revealed in the scriptures." (By Jack Hook, <a href="http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net/">Babylon The Great Is Falling</a>)<br /><br />----------------------------------------------- <br /><br />(1) Son of God<br /><br />The fundamental doctrines of Christ begin with the truth of the trinity or one God in three persons, Father, Word (Son), and Holy Spirit. The Jewish prophet, Isaiah, saw the person of the Son and said unto a rebellious Israel..."For unto us a child is born (in Bethlehem), unto us a Son is given (in Jerusalem), and the government shall be upon his shoulder" (on Earth during the millennial kingdom)..., Isaiah 9:6. Daniel spoke of the same Son and his mission when he said the Messiah would be "cut off" or given for the people of Israel, Daniel 9:26. <br /><br />The apostle John's very first words given to him by the Holy Spirit, as he described this Son who the small remnant of Israel was looking for, were..."In the beginning was the Word (Son), and the Word (Son) was with God (Father), and the Word (Son) was God. The same was in the beginning with God (Father)...and the Word (Son) was made flesh, and dwelt among us", John 1:1-2,14. When the Word or Son came to this Earth through the virgin birth of Mary, God and man were forever linked in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. As Jesus, the eternal Word and Son, said to the Father..."a body thou hast prepared me", Hebrews 10:5. God the Word (Son) was now wearing the fleshly body of a man, yet without sin as all others possessed from the fall of Adam and Eve.<br /><br />Many who read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John become confused by false teachers who deny that Jesus was God, the second member of the eternal Godhead. They will cut and paste the words of Jesus out of context to prove their point. When you read the words of Jesus written in the four gospels he seems to be talking to his followers one time as the Son of Man, like when he says..."the Father is greater than I". These false teachers will use this verse to say Jesus was only a man. But they quickly forget that another time Jesus says.."before Abraham was, I am", which identifies the Word (Son) of God inside the body of the Lord doing the speaking, for Jesus the man had not yet been born when Abraham lived. Remember, the Lord Jesus was both a man and God and could speak from either position or nature. We must know also that the triune Godhead had planned before the worlds were created for the Word to also become the Son, which John so clearly alluded to in his gospel account. <br /><br />(2) Satan's Rebellion<br /><br />The next thing we must understand is the fall of Lucifer, who was created as one of God's archangels, Isaiah 14:12-14. He was created with a pure and perfect heart, just as Adam and Eve much later in time. Both angels and men were created to live forever like their creator. God created multiple millions, some say billions, of other angels that administered the Kingdom of God that flourished throughout the universe. Everything was filled with love, light, and life that worshipped the triune Godhead. According to Ezekiel's account of Lucifer's rebellion, he was perfect in his ways until the day sin was found in him. For pride filled his heart as he desired to not only be a creation of God, but attain the place and position of being God himself, Ezekiel 28:11-19. He managed to convince one-third of all the angels to join him in this attempt to be like God, Revelation 12:3-4. He now became known as Satan.<br /><br />Luke records the Lord Jesus himself declaring how he was there when God banished Lucifer and his rebellious friends from Heaven..."I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven", Luke 10:18. That statement confirms the truth that Jesus was both the eternal God and a man in perfect flesh when he spoke those words to his disciples. The light and life that filled the universe through the hearts of holy angels was now cursed with the darkness by the fall of Lucifer and his friends The apostle John plots the course of this vital and foundational teaching of Lucifer/Satan's fall in the Revelation with the glorious and ultimate political-religious defeat of Satan and the fallen angels.<br /><br />(3) Sin Nature<br /><br />When Adam and Eve fell into rebellion against God through the crafty lies of Satan, all future generations were now under a curse. Satan now had dominion over humanity, and ultimately the various nations or kingdoms that would arise from a divided world after the flood of Noah's day, including America. Satan even offered the nations to Jesus if he would worship him as God, Luke 4:5-8.<br /><br />We all inherited the sin nature of Adam and Eve which consists of many elements and characteristics, all flowing from the self-exalting pride of this life (militant national patriotism a manifestation), and the love of self and money, 1 John 2:16. It consumes and controls our entire tri-part being comprised of body, soul, and spirit. This nature of pride within us all was the root cause of Esau's (Edomites) hatred toward Israel just as the Old Testament prophet Obadiah declared..."the pride of your heart (spirit) has deceived you", Obadiah 3. The Islamic neighbors of Israel today are no different than their Edomite ancestors, as they are totally consumed by their desire to destroy the Jewish people.<br /><br />(4) Sacrifice of Blood<br /><br />According to the scriptures, this evil sin nature can only be removed by the blood sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. This removal is likened unto the circumcision of a male child, but this one is of our heart or spirit wherein dwells the control room of our entire being. Hebrews 9:22 says it plainly..."without shedding of blood is no remission (of sin)," It is that simple my friends We have no power or ability within ourselves to remove the dominance this nature has over our entire being. All we can do is come to the bloody cross of Israel's Messiah. This sacrificial death on the cross to pay for our sins, to offer us mercy and forgiveness is why he came from Heaven in the first place. How can anyone not love him and unashamedly proclaim his name for what he did?<br /><br />The scriptures teach that Jesus came once to die in the end of the ages, appearing unto man to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, Hebrews 9:26. But properly understanding the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ must include the truth of his glorious bodily resurrection. As Paul taught the Corinthians, if Jesus did not rise bodily from the dead then he is not our Savior and Lord, and we are yet in our sins, 1 Corinthian 15. This resurrection truth must be included with the cross to be the cornerstone of our faith. They are inseparable.<br /><br />The next two foundational doctrines describe the part we must play in order to be freed from the sin nature within us, but as I just said, the sacrificial death and glorious bodily resurrection of our Lord which our brothers, Peter, James, and John, witnessed first hand and so testified before a doubting world, remains the heart and soul of the gospel message. <br /><br />(5) Sorrow<br /><br />This might shock some of you, but it is not enough to just give mental assent to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The fallen angels and their leader, Satan, do this every day. They know this all happened, they saw it with their very own eyes, they were there. You must take this knowledge and apply it to your own life. His death is your death and his resurrection is your resurrection and freedom from the sin nature, like Paul taught in Romans 6-8. This application of Godly knowledge then becomes wisdom, and wisdom changes our lives. But you might be asking, what does it mean...his death is my death? Great question!<br /><br />First of all, we must humbly confess from our hearts that we are indeed sinners before a holy and majestic God, and rightfully deserve to be judged and sent to an eternal Hell in the Lake of Fire. At the same time we must do what Paul taught the Corinthians, when he told them Godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, 2 Corinthians 7:10. This sorrow can only come when we realize that all of our sins are not just against other people, but against God. Our sins are the very nails that punctured the skin of the Son of God when evil men crucified him over two-thousand years ago. I was one of those evil men and still am in my carnal flesh! We were all there in a spiritual sense, my friends, and all of us stand guilty before him. After thirty plus years of knowing this fundamental truth about myself and the bloody cross of our Savior, I continue to stand in awe of the incredible love the Son of God has toward all men, in that while we were yet sinners and his enemies, he died for us.<br /><br />Sorrow of a Godly kind instinctively produces repentance and must be included when placing or applying our God-given faith upon the person of Jesus Christ and his teachings. Then his death becomes the death of your old life as a practicing sinner. For the Lord Jesus teaches us that if we repent and put our trust and faith in him he will freely give us "the gift" that brings salvation. Regrettably, many in Christendom today want a free gift of salvation "only" to escape being thrown into the Lake of Fire, when the truth is our Lord gives this free gift to save us from our sin nature and the fallen angels who stir it up to do their bidding.<br /><br />Many are traveling upon a dark and wide religious road leading to an eternal Hell, while at the same time thinking they have Jesus as Savior, when he is not the Lord of their lives. I was once one of them before becoming an atheist after my experiences in the Vietnam war. I was a believer in name only, even having the name "Protestant" engraved on my Army dog tags. Like all false believers, I had no desire to understand the spiritual components of my sin nature which poured out of me naturally, let alone be free from its power. In fact, I didn't think for a second I was a false believer, and would look down on anyone who would even suggest such a thing. After all, I was serving God and country, just like other Christian Americans have since 1776. <br /><br />So just what is this free gift that we "receive by faith" when Godly sorrow has worked repentance within our hearts? <br /><br />(6) Salvation<br /><br />Salvation is not a reality in our lives unless we believe the Word of God when he says the Holy Spirit will enter into our bodies instantly upon our true Godly repentance and expression of faith in the bloody cross and resurrection of our Lord and Savior. As Peter cried out to his Jewish audience on the Day of Pentecost..."Therefore, let all of the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom "ye have crucified", both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were "pricked" in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit", Acts 2:36-38. Do you see how this Jewish audience was told they killed the Messiah? How did they respond when their hearts were pricked or convicted by the Holy Spirit using the mouth and words of Peter?<br /><br />You can clearly see now that the ultimate free gift of God is not just escaping the Lake of Fire, but receiving the Holy Spirit, the third member of the triune Godhead. He is a person, God himself, who enters into our sinful bodies, washes away the sin nature controlling our heart or spirit, and recreates a new heart now surrounded by the Holy Spirit. Our bodies and old minds have yet to be saved and contain the remnants of the sin nature that tempt us, but the dominant power of sin was located in our spirit or heart. This evil nature has been crucified on the cross and our new heart lives in the love, life, and teachings of Jesus Christ while our minds are renewed daily waiting for the final salvation or glorification of our sinful bodies on the day of resurrection. This what Paul meant when he cried out..."Christ in you the hope of glory", Colossians 1:20-29<br /><br />But false Christian teachers inspired by fallen angels have always twisted or redefined this indwelling miracle in order to keep men trapped in the self-exaltation of themselves (self-love, self-image, self-esteem) that comes naturally from the religious pride of our sin nature. Men like Robert Schuller, Bennie Hinn, Joel Osteen, and their friends on television, have redefined the elements of the sin nature and are trumpeting "another" Holy Spirit that is deceiving millions in Christendom. There is only one true Holy Spirit and Paul said to the Christians in Rome if any man has not this Spirit of Christ, he is not yet saved and part of the Body of Christ, Romans 8:9.<br /><br />The fallen angels that guide false teachers, like Schuller, hate the truth of the bloody cross and will do anything they can to keep men from the power of the cross that produces Godly sorrow and true repentance. Moreover, these unseen haters of God do not want anyone to understand the spiritual components of our sin nature, and the power of the Lord's blood to wash it away.<br /><br />Know this my friends, when a man has the true Spirit of God within him he will not contradict or re-interpret these fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ. Neither will the true Spirit condone any notion that in any way suggests we can have Jesus as our Savior, but not the Lord of our daily lives. Like I said, there are many false Christians who want only to escape Hell, but not the sin that sends us there. Remember this, he will not be our Savior from Hell if we have no desire for him to be our Lord to give us his power to walk in his commandments no matter what the cost. This indwelling of God within us is the power that also brings a great love for all people, including the worst of our enemies, whereby we can then obey the two greatest commandments of God, loving him and our neighbors. All other commandments hang upon these two, just as Jesus said.<br /><br />Paul wrote to his friend, Titus, instructing him to remind the followers of Jesus, now being seduced by false Christian teachers, that we were saved not by offering our own good works unto God that he might then forgive us. Men who teach these things only keep men in the carnal pleasures of their sin nature, while convincing their followers they have the innate ability within themselves to please God by good deeds or works. Paul was astonished at how these false teachers would twist the Word of God around trying to convince people they needed to do good works in themselves before God would forgive and save them. He carefully told Titus..."Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit", Titus 3:5. Both Peter and Paul understood and taught this fundamental teaching of regeneration or being born again in one's heart, and the work of the Holy Spirit in renewing our minds with the teachings of Jesus.<br /><br />(7) Second Coming<br /><br />The cross and resurrection are inseparable teachings, as I wrote earlier. There is one more doctrine that must be connected to them in order to have complete understanding of the gospel message. And that is the doctrine of the physical and pre-millennial second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to establish his rule and reign from Jerusalem over the nations for one-thousand years, Revelation 19-20. If any of these three teachings are redefined or omitted from the proclamation of the gospel, confusion will rule in the hearts of those who profess to be Christians, the followers of Jesus Christ. If this confusion or distortion is not corrected the gospel proclaimed by these deceived brethren then becomes as Paul said to the Corinthians and Galatians, "another" gospel preaching "another" Jesus.<br /><br />Do you now believe that he is alive, risen from the dead, and your sin nature has been washed away by his blood? If you do, then where is he now and is he coming back as he promised his amazed followers who watched him as he ascended into the heavens, leaving them with his promise to someday return in like manner, Acts 1:9-11? Our Lord will return to and for his faithful followers in his glorious risen body before he unleashes his militant judgment upon the nations for rejecting him and his message. These are the Christians who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and walking in his power to continue in the faith concerning these seven pillars of sound doctrine.<br /><br />------------------------------------------------ </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">If you wish to read Jack's entire email, you can visit his site, Babylon The Great Is Falling, and join his email list or read his recommended articles: "I invite you to once again read the two-part article "The Fundamentalist" which details and defines these foundational doctrines or teachings in the holy scriptures. Just click on "Articles" on the left side of our website homepage and scroll down to the article. Please let me know if you have any comments, criticisms, or questions by visiting our website and signing the "guestbook" or sending an email. Thank you for reading this and I hope to hear from you soon. I hope you will also consider reading the articles "Then Comes the Fire", and “The Judgment Chronicles” posted on our web site. For details concerning my military background during the Vietnam era, please read the articles "Vietnam: The Manchus of Charlie Company", "Pacifist, Patriot, or Pilgrim" and “Moved with Compassion”. Just click on the web site link below and click on “Articles”. The radio interviews I have been part of can be listened to by clicking on this link: <a style="COLOR: rgb(42,93,176)" href="http://www.thebyteshow.com/JackHook.html" target="_blank">http://www.thebyteshow.com/JackHook.html</a> " (excerpt from email by Jack Hook)</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Now that we have a good foundation of solid truths, we can go ahead and get into the meat of what is happening in the world today concerning scripture, Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible, God's Word, and the controversial and often misdirected proclamations put forth by such authors as Robert Schuller, Marianne Williamson, Wayne Dyer, Gary Zukav, Barbara Marx Hubbard, James Redfield, Deepak Chopra, Rick Warren, and yes, believe it or not, Oprah Winfrey. It's going to be an eye-opening, mind-boggling (at times), mind-clearing (at times) event that you won't want to miss. So, stay tuned...</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">Yours in Christ Jesus (everlasting), friendship (eternal), and Love (enduring & unconditional)...</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;">David K. Irwin</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#660000;"></span></em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-80466551387950964122009-06-23T22:02:00.000-06:002009-06-27T07:12:36.137-06:00My "Bio" used to be Degradable.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">I won't go into great detail about my past. If you want to know my past better, go to my <a href="http://davidsd_1.tripod.com/">homepage</a> and read my "Life's Hardships" and "Testimonials" pages. Suffice to say that I engaged in every sort of degradation known to man and then some. I am not proud..nor am I ashamed of my past...I am over it! In 1996, I gave up my sins and was Born Again. I wish I could say that I immediately quit drugs, pornography, drinking, smoking, and cussing...but it didn't happen like that at all. It has taken a great deal of work, many lessons from Jesus, and a ton of patience to become who I am today.<br /><br />There were some very memorable experiences along the way such as when I was given the miracle of being totally released from nicotine. I'm not going to sit here and say God spoke to me...and I'm not going to say He did not speak to me. I will say that early Sunday morning, January 14, 2001, my wife, Denise, and I were watching the El Salvador Earthquake on Saturday night's late news when suddenly, like thunder & lightening, I knew I would never have to smoke again. I told Denise immediately and she laughed...knowing my track record...and wished me luck. I had quit once for eight years, always had cravings the entire time, and started again...then I quit for three years two different times and started again each time. After that third time, I told Jesus I would never be able to do it again without His help and He should let me know when I could quit. I have not had as much as a single desire to smoke since that night...it's as if I had never smoked a day in my life. Now, I don't know about you, but in my book...that's a miracle!<br /><br />At the other end of the pendulum, I asked Jesus for patience. I was tired of being in pain constantly day in and day out, my family was in disarray, my pets would not even listen to me. I yelled constantly and was on the verge of full-fledged road rage. I yelled at everyone and no one would come to our home for fear of one of my unpredictable tirades. Antidepressants and other medications did not help. So, I prayed...and I prayed...and I prayed some more for patience. However, the more I prayed...the worse my problem seemed to get. It was as if the whole world was out to make me mad. From daybreak to dusk, it was just one thing after another until I was nearly in tears. Finally, I asked my very close friend, confidant, and bible encyclopedia freak, Gary, for advice. After telling him my predicament, he started laughing! I said, "What? You think it's funny I'm loosing my freakin' mind?" He laughed again and said, "No Hip. Can't you see what's happening? You asked for patience...now the good Lord Jesus is putting you in situation after situation that requires you to learn how to be patient. It's a lesson bonehead!"<br /><br />Man...I have to tell you that I nearly fell off the chair I was so dumbfounded. It was so clear it was ridiculous...but, without the help of a fellow Christian, I could not see the sun for the clouds. So you ask...so what? Well, my point is simple. Jesus, God, The Holy Spirit...they all work together once you are Born Again to make you into a better Christian. Sometimes they give miracles...rarely. Most times, they give lessons. We can choose to fight against their lessons tooth and claw with the logic that we can do it on our own...or, we can choose to learn the lesson and move on. I am a thousand times more patient today than I was a year ago and I still do not smoke or chew over eight years later. And the friend thing...well, that is in the bible too. In plain English it says; Two heads are better than one when it comes to discerning the Will of God. We are meant to fellowship with others and we are not supposed to rely on our own will or our solitary understanding.<br /><br />Jesus wants to have a "Daily" relationship with you. He wants to be a part of your every waking moment and to be confided in and relied upon for all matters. It's those little, dark secrets that we have stored on shelves in the corners of our minds that He wants to discuss thoroughly. Once they are brought into the light, forgiveness and forgetfulness are only a blink away. However, there are two sides to every coin and a truth behind every lie. Those same little secrets, which you are so reluctant to let go of, can be used by Satan as a stronghold and He will make them fester and grow until they come out in all different forms of torture...drinking, drugs, pornography, workaholic, anger, depression, fear, hate, envy...hey, His list of weapons go on and on. The worst of which is "Discouragement." Satan uses discouragement every time you pray. He sits on your shoulder and yells in your ear, "There is NO GOD! Praying is a waste of time...and it doesn't work!" Or maybe He is at your track meet telling you there is no way you are going to outrun that tall lanky kid from Tenbucktwo. All our adversary needs is a small foothold to make it grow. We need to put on the Full Armor Of God.<br /><br />In that light, I bring you this blog. I have been called by our Lord to provide as much information on the workings and whereabouts of our adversary as is humanly possible. Starting with my next entry, I will be bringing you details involving both sides of the battlefield and from both camps playbooks. What can you do today you might ask? Well, ask your pastor what is being done in your church to keep our adversary at bay and what their attack plan involves. That is another part of being a Christian...a HUGE part...fighting the adversary. He who fights the Good Fight, fights for what's right!<br /><br />Until next time...my heart reaches out to you...<br /><br />David<br /></span></span></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418682663810773886.post-58031369266898389042009-06-20T13:49:00.001-06:002009-08-19T16:19:36.737-06:00Bad hair day...!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yS71p2m1ssw/Sj0_sDfHzkI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ipnwtClcb10/s1600-h/bad+hair+day.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 302px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yS71p2m1ssw/Sj0_sDfHzkI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ipnwtClcb10/s320/bad+hair+day.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349501958468652610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">This is a picture of our dog, Dusty. She is having a bad hair day after showering. She is a combination of Miniature Rat Terrier and Miniature Schnauzer. The breed is tentatively called "Schnerrier" but we like "Rhauzer" better. It suits her personality to a tee as she is in high gear from dawn till dusk every single day. She gives 110% all the time!<br /><br />Dusty is undoubtedly our most treasured blessing as a pet and family member. She is the most loyal and non-judgmental dog we have had the pleasure to own...and we have owned a few in our 60 years of pets. The reason I started this blog out with a picture of Dusty is simple: Dog is God spelled backwards...and, dogs are man's best friend for a very good reason. They exemplify the behavior we are supposed to display towards our fellow human beings on this planet, in this universe, during our lifetimes. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. We can learn a great deal from dogs. They are loyal, trustworthy, obedient, selfless, eager to please, non-judgmental, forgiving to a fault, and they give unconditional love to their masters. Can you say the same?<br /><br />Even dogs that have been beaten, abused, mistreated, starved, and left to die want only to please someone and have someone to love. They are more than eager to forgive the sins of their masters (or abusers) in return for something very simple...FAITH. Faith that you will feed them, talk to them, love them, always come home to them, and allow them to show you how much they can give in return. Just like God and Jesus Christ.<br /><br />The Holy Bible (I prefer the King James Version as it is the closest English translation to the original Hebrew there is available with the least amount of humanizing, which I will explain later) is God's Word put to writing. God engaged a goodly number of men to whom he dictated His Holy Scripture...The Truth...over a long period of time. The Words He had them write were not meant to be re-invented by man and the Bible was not meant to be changed by interpretation of man to make it easier to read or obey. It is a guide to entering heaven...a map of sorts...it exemplifies a standard of life that each person should find to be desirable.<br /><br />In the days, weeks and months to come, I hope to spark an interest in my reader's hearts to discover for themselves what they believe to be the truth. The lines are being drawn between good and evil, God and Satan, believer and...believer? Yes...between believers. There is a division among believers that is stealing the souls of millions of Christians and taking them to the Dark Side (hell, Satan, The Adversary, Legion, Maitreya, or whatever you prefer). This movement is as old as religion itself but has come lately with a renewed strength and a new handle...THE NEW SPIRITUALITY. The very name gives it away as a clearly Satanic belief. The New Testament is quite clear about staying far away from spiritualists, ghost whisperers, gypsies, fortune-tellers, prophets, and the like. It says many will come in the name of Jesus saying this or telling you to believe in that...but, to pay them no heed. For there is only one Jesus Christ and the time of His coming will not be foretold. Only the warning signs, told of in the bible, will be known and one of them is the warning about false prophets and the Antichrist.<br /><br />Many best sellers are rolling off the presses today about how to change your life, discover your "Purpose", realize the "Force", know about "Oneness", find out "The Secret", and how to find the truth about universal life and everlasting peace led by the True Christ, Maitreya. Oprah Winfrey is helping them along with her show and endorsements. Holy crap man...if Oprah says it's good...well, it just has to be!!! Maitreya, whom I will discuss in detail later, claims to be the true Christ and that Jesus was just a disciple of his. He may indeed be the true Antichrist! He is here already and he has a huge following. The Adversary has brought his lies into Christianity and he has done it by means of books, schools/teachers, hospitals/doctors/nurses, government, through our children (YES!), and even our clergy. He has found the back door to our beliefs and is poisoning millions of minds with his venomous lies by circumventing the very structures we use in every day life. His story is about making people "FEEL GOOD" inside and out. After all, if you feel good...how can it be bad?<br /><br />In the pages to come, I hope to show each of you that there are two sides to every coin and a truth behind every lie. I will introduce you to authors who have diagnosed these books that are so popular, where they got their information, to whom they give their allegiance, and what their true goals incorporate. I will introduce you to information that will show you who is orchestrating the whole movement and why. I will give you grassroots explanations about how this all got started...and why. And, last but not least by far, I will show you what is truly in store for the poor souls that find themselves enchanted by this sorcery and do not realize the Truth before the End of Times. We are in a battle...the lines have been drawn. Sides are being chosen...whether you realize it or not! Souls are at stake...literally!!<br /><br />But, be of good cheer. The Light is just ahead...the beacon is being lit as I write. If you find a shred of truth in my writing, there is still hope. Be very, very careful what you read and take to heart in these last days for a "little leaven leaveneth the whole loaf." In other words, just a small untruth dispels all that is said to be the truth. There is no quarter in the bible...it is The Truth...the whole Truth...and nothing but the Truth....so help me God. Read on in good faith!<br /></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515273938631844487noreply@blogger.com0